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When autumn temperatures stay higher for longer, mosses have more time to develop their spore capsules before winter arrives.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2025

His journey with the spore started in 2022, when he and colleague Andrew Luzmore began collaborating with Hill-Maini, identifying various kitchen waste streams that might be good candidates for fermentation.

From Salon ● Nov. 12, 2024

For a mushroom to grow, a fungal spore has to set up shop on a surface and produce mycelia.

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2024

IRVINE, Calif. — A drone flies over a peaceful Southern California marsh and unleashes a rain of larvae-killing bacterial spore pellets.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 29, 2023

By 1945, milky spore disease was raging among the beetle populations of Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Anthrax is caused by a bacteria called Bacillus anthracis, which largely survives as spores that hide away in soil for years before entering an animal through inhalation or a cut or wound.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Lawyers on both sides often use tests that measure the number of mold spores in the air.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

Algal spores may have turned the water green in places across Northern Ireland, but strong winds and heavy rain have kept surfaces too agitated for the formation of the very large-scale mats we've seen before.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

The team now hopes to develop a method that activates the bacterial spores in water, where a significant share of plastic pollution accumulates.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026

In the standard mixture a gram of dust contains 100 million spores.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

The Oita prefecture produces 40% of Japan’s shiitake mushrooms, spored in the trunks of sawtooth oaks.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2017

The plants are small, sessile, or attached by a very short stem; closed at first, then expanding until nearly plane; disk yellow, smooth; asci clavate, 8 spored; spores hyaline, smooth.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard

The dark or black spored Algæ, or Melanosporeæ or Fucoideæ.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 by Various

The simple spored rust first makes its appearance, and later the bilocular “mildew.”

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke

The pink spored species should also be regarded with suspicion.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke

Lack of rain combined with several days of hard frost in a row will prevent mushrooms from sporing in the fall.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2022

Some are just starting to bear fruiting bodies, or sporing bodies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2022

This discoloration happens as the mushroom passes through the sporing process, and can result in overwhelming bitter notes, which the drying process helps dissipate.

From Salon ● Jan. 9, 2022

For the morning glory that spreads its petals at dawn, for geese flying south in autumn, for locusts swarming every 17 years and even for lowly slime molds sporing in daily cycles, timing is everything.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 13, 2014

Streaming steam—i. e., steam at 100°C.—destroys the vegetative forms of bacteria in from fifteen to twenty minutes, and the sporing forms in from one to two hours.

From The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. by J. W. H. (John William Henry) Eyre