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Terr_last Wednesday at 8:32 AM2 repliesview on HN

I wonder if there's anything that can be done from an ecological perspective, encouraging the presence of (acceptable) organisms that consume the problematic fungal spore species.


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Aurornislast Wednesday at 12:23 PM

Mold spores are everywhere. If they were a useful and plentiful food source, an organism would have evolved to consume them in bulk by now.

The presence of spores isn’t a problem by itself and eliminating them isn’t feasible.

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cess11last Wednesday at 9:22 AM

Spores are kind of designed to not be valuable as food. Can you name some organisms that actually consume spores rather than eat and then poop them out?

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