It’s October, and mushrooms are springing up, seemingly overnight, on our lawns and in local woods. What a contrast to the bone-dry autumns a few years ago, when hardly a mushroom could be found! This ...
Often featured in fairytales, the red toadstool mushroom fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) is toxic to humans and many animals. However, experts have observed that Japanese squirrels can safely eat ...
Associate Professor SUETSUGU Kenji and independent photographer GOMI Koichi have observed a Japanese squirrel (Sciurus lis) routinely feeding on well-known species of poisonous toadstool mushroom, ...