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Sugar icing fungus

Sugar icing fungus (Beauvieria bassiana)on a chafer beetle (Stethaspis suturalis). The fungus infects the beetle while it is still alive, and when the insect finally succumbs it grows out through gaps in its exoskeleton.

Scientific name:	Beauvieria bassiana, Stethaspis suturalis
Common name(s):	suagr icing fungus
Location:	Te Urewera National Park, New Zealand
Photo ID:	6854
Keywords:	native ; endemic ; Arthropoda ; Insecta ; Coleoptera ; Scarabaeidae ; Stethaspis ; fungi