Bioluminescence - Blog Posts
Funguary Day 16: Mycena Chlorophos
Mycena Chlorophos is what's known as a foxfire fungus- a fungus that glows at night. The mushroom regulates its glow through a circadian rhythm, at night the levels of the chemical compound and enzymes that react to produce the bioluminescence peak.
It is theorized that the light it emits at night is to attract beetles and other insects that might help spread the spores similar to how flowers use scents and colors to attract pollinators
Once an experiment was ran by Olson in which two cultures of the biter oyster, another foxfire fungi, were grown and placed on a completely dark box under constant conditions. He left them alone for a week with a camera sensitive enough to pick up their bioluminescence. What the camera showed was that the mycelium grew in an irregular circle, with the glow more intense at the center than at the edges. After a couple days there was a sudden shift, in one of the cultures a wave of bioluminescence passed over the network from one edge to the other. A day later a similar wave passed over the second culture. Though the fungi were kept in the dark for several more weeks, the flare up never occurred again. Years later, Olson still did not know what had caused the sudden flare.
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I just want them to connect Quaritch to the tree of souls.
And watch him evolve!!!
Welcome to Pandora
Welcome to Pandora!
Have a jellyfish I drew to test out my new pen tab on my phone •w•
STATICMOTH 2025 - VINTAGE I uploaded this once with all inspiration/reference links (literally had a folder for them) but some people may not jive with that or it goes against some guidelines for groups. I just want to be sure credit goes where it should, so just hunt for this on my page to find the link swarm? Or give me advice how to best do this going forward if you have ideas! Otherwise, enjoy these two monsters being fuckin' cute! >w< I love doing mult-armed characters, interacting poses, all that fluff, and giving vox some more outfits~