Dunlap and colleagues from the University of São
Paulo in Brazil have shown in a new study that the mushrooms emit light only
during the night, with a peak intensity occurring about 10 p.m. This
corresponds to a period of high activity among flies and flying insects, which
congregate near these glowing mushrooms, Dunlap says. The scientists think that
this is beneficial for the mushrooms because when the insects land on and brush
up against the fungi, they pick up its spores and then spread them to new places
when they fly elsewhere. Spores can then germinate when they land in other
suitable locations. “Bioluminescence is a tool the mushrooms use to make
themselves interesting to insects, which take their spores place to place,”
Dunlap says. March 19 http://www.newsweek.com/why-some-mushrooms-glow-dark-315194
This news
comes in on the eve of the Solar Eclipse of March 20. A chart drawn for the
eclipse at Sao Paulo has it placed very significantly on the Ascendant square
the TNPs Kronos-Hades on the fourth house cusp. The fourth house rules land as well as the produce of the land
[1] which would include plants that grow on the land. Kronos-Hades form a Grand
Trine with Neptune and the TNP Poseidon [2].
Kronos: fame or prominence
Poseidon: Light
Kronos-Poseidon:
to achieve prominence through the emission of light.
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