Fungus Sprites

 

We have to get up early in the morning when it's the wet season here in Switzerland. Overnight there is a lot of mushrooming going on in the forests and that means, if you want to have one, then the next morning when daylight breaks, you have to try to catch them.

 

Really fun to do and good for your health, because they don't look like they can, but they're very fast runners.
So a couple of months ago we caught for research some good species of Fungus Sprites and put them behind glass. The glass helps, that they can't run away and attack, because sometimes Sprites can bite if provoked. So we always wear protecting gloves when we work with Fungus Sprites.

 

The ones on this page I found under a pine tree gnawing on some roots of the tree, what is very noisy.