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Horse Hair Fungus with Fungus Gnats???? - 2803

I saw this very small fungus in one of our potted plants this morning (August 3, 2013). It’s growing on a pine needle that fell from our tree onto a potted plant. There is grew spindly little mushroom looking things on it. I got my camera and extension tube and got as close as I could to it. Upon closer observation there were little bugs crawling around on them. My extensive searching on the internet (5 min) I found some people calling the fungus “Horse Hair Fungus” and the bugs may be “Fungus Gnats”. If anyone knows differently please let me know. I have seen these before in the monsoon months when it’s humid. I included a dime in a few of the shots for scale. These are very small mushrooms.

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Uploaded on August 3, 2013
Taken on August 3, 2013