[Pollinator] Fwd: Caterpillar medicine

[De Angelis, Patricia]

More input on this post from some of my colleagues at the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service:

*It's a caterpillar fungus.  Was in Kunming airport about 1.5 months ago.
Poster is about 20 ft tall!

*Marketed as Cordyceps in this country.

*It's the Cordyceps fungus, and they are parasitic on (in) many species of
caterpillars. Check out the Wikipedia info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordyceps

*
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/04/110427-fungus-caterpillars-tibet-china-herders-science/
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