Giuliana’s first Cordyceps!
Habitat: Atlantic Paranaense forest
Substrate: Pupa of Arctiini (Tiger moths)
Collectors: Guiliana Furci & Fernando Mafalda Freire
Collection #: n/a
Collected during the 2015 “Curso de Identificación de Macrohongos Degradadores de Madera,” lead by Dr. Gerardo Robledo, Dr. Elisandro Ricardo Drechsler-Santos, Dr. Orlando Fabián Popoff Montañez and Nicolás Niveiro.
not exact location. This bird is well known by the park rangers. Amazing sighting of the bird fighting with a branch it eventually broke off and flew out of sight, presumably to a nest it may be building/maintaining?