Nick Upton / Aspen (Populus tremula) with Aspen trunk rot / False tinder conk mushroom (Phellinus tremulae). Trees with rotten cores provide ideal nest holes for the Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans). Mur...

Colin Varndell / Fruiting body of giant Polypore fungus (Meripilus giganteus) Dorset, England, UK. August.

Alex Hyde / Moth feeding on Bridal Veil Stinkhorn (Phallus indusiatus), growing on rainforest floor. The fungal fruiting body gives off a pungent odour that attracts a wide range of invertebrates, which help disp...

Alex Hyde / Moth feeding on Bridal Veil Stinkhorn (Phallus indusiatus), growing on rainforest floor. The fungal fruiting body gives off a pungent odour that attracts a wide range of invertebrates, which help disp...

Alex Hyde / Cockroach feeding on Bridal Veil Stinkhorn (Phallus indusiatus), growing on rainforest floor. The fungal fruiting body gives off a pungent odour that attracts a wide range of invertebrates, which help...

Alex Hyde / Moth feeding on Bridal Veil Stinkhorn (Phallus indusiatus), growing on rainforest floor. The fungal fruiting body gives off a pungent odour that attracts a wide range of invertebrates, which help disp...

Nick Garbutt / Maiden's veil / Bridal veil fungus (Phallus indusiatus) on rainforest floor. Heath River, Tambopata / Bahuaja-Sonene Reserves, Amazonia, Peru / Bolivia border.

Nick Garbutt / Maiden's veil / Bridal veil fungus (Phallus indusiatus) with indusium fully formed, on rainforest floor. Heath River, Tambopata / Bahuaja-Sonene Reserves, Amazonia, Peru / Bolivia border.

Ross Hoddinott / Close-up of the gills of a group of small mushrooms (unidentified) north Cornwall, UK. November. Highly commended in the Wild Woods Category of the BWPA (British Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awar...

Guy Edwardes / Fairies bonnets (Coprinus disseminatus), New Forest National Park, Hampshire, England, UK. October.

Guy Edwardes / Porcelain fungus (Oudemansiella mucida), New Forest National Park, Hampshire, England, UK. October.