Oyster Mushrooms Poison Prey

People like to eat oyster mushrooms, but what do oyster mushrooms like to eat? Perhaps more interesting than what they eat is how they eat. A new study revealed that oyster mushrooms poison and paralyze their prey, nematodes (roundworms), with nerve gas before consuming them.

Carnivory and gruesome behavior are a result of the fall and weren’t part of God’s original, very good creation. But in a fallen world, even mushrooms must eat—and they do this in some wild ways.

This article is from Answers magazine, July–September, 2023, p. 19.