Illinois
Chicago mushroom club on the hunt for fungi, an understudied lifeform
During mushroom season in Illinois, mid-April to early November, the club conducts surveys around Chicagoland a few times a month.
A zombie ant, a pair of bats and a gorilla lurked around the shadiest alcoves of a Cook County forest preserve on Saturday, scouring the earth for decomposing life forms.
But the pack of monsters wasn’t intending to feed on the dead organisms.
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