Help identifying this please

[Goldenroad]

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Wondering if anyone can help me identify what this is? It bears some relevance to behavioural ecology but I can't find out what it is!

 

[Crunchy Cat]

Looks like a partially crushed puffed snack sticking out of the dirt.

 

[Crunchy Cat]

Interesting, you changed the color photo to a black and white drawing and didn't annonce it.

Edit: I see, it's two different links side by side. Both images are there. The black and white on looks like a seed. The color one looks like a puffed snack.

 

[Crunchy Cat]

It looks like a seed sprouting.

 

[Goldenroad]

I believe it's a fungus. The black and white image appears to show some sort of insect living under it, or hatching, I really am not sure

 

[spidergoat]

Mycelium? Or maybe a form of slime mold?

 

[rodereve]

Looks like some sort of insect larvae to me....

 

[Goldenroad]

it appears to be a social relationship between an insect species (perhaps termites) and a fungus, I just can't identify what species they are and am hoping to find someone who might know

 

[Goldenroad]

I have found out what it is....it's a scale insect with septobasidium fungi growing over it