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On average, mosses now begin releasing spores about four weeks earlier than they did in 1990, and the peak of spore dispersal arrives roughly six weeks sooner.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2025

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

It produces a type of cell called a spore, which is very resistant to heating.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2023

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

I look at the page, where the life cycle of the mushroom from spore to fruiting body is taking shape, and I know this with absolute certainty.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Unkelbauer, who studied palynology -- the study of microscopic biological material found in sediment such as pollen and spores -- illustrates a growing labour market mismatch in Germany.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

The heath-star moss sends out spores far and wide and reproduces quickly, making it a successful invader.

From BBC ● May 30, 2026

It is only logical, writes Mr. Scharf in “The Giant Leap,” that this life should then spread itself through space in what he terms a great “dispersal,” as though humans were airborne seeds or spores.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

“If I have to look at one more shot of spores and fog, I’m going to lose my mind.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 25, 2025

Compounds containing spores of Bacillus thuringiensis are now being manufactured by several firms in the United States under various trade names.

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

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

Three types of spores may be said to prevail in the Tuberacei: the smooth spored, the warted or spinulose, and the areolate.

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

G. Massee, the British mycologist, makes of the black-spored and the purple and purplish-brown spored series two divisions, calling them, respectively, Porphyrospore� and Melanospore�.

From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas

The basidia are abruptly club-shaped, rather distant and separated regularly by rounded cells, four spored.

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis

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 Eyre, J. W. H. (John William Henry)