department of botany

Rhinocerebral mucormycosis,creepy bugs,phylum Nematomorpha,disgusting bugs,insects,Balanophora

Mind-control worms and eye-bulging fungus: real-life horror from nature this Halloween

UBC researchers share some gruesome parasites of nature, like worms that fill the entire gut of an insect to a fungus that grows from your nose to your brain.

Oct 30, 2023

How to forage for mushrooms – safely and legally – this fall

How to forage for mushrooms – safely and legally – this fall

Dr. Mary Berbee, professor in the UBC department of botany, discusses how to safely and legally forage for mushrooms around the city this fall.

Oct 19, 2023

On the left is a starving provoran. On the right, it has engulfed its prey. Photo Credit: Tikhonenkov, Mikhailov, Gawryluk, Belyaev, Mathur, Karpov, Zagumyonnyi, Borodina, Prokina, Mylnikov, Aleoshin, and Keeling, Nature

New branch on tree of life includes ‘lions of the microbial world’

There’s a new branch on the tree of life and it’s made up of predators that nibble their prey to death.

Dec 7, 2022