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Bread gets moldy for the simple reason that molds produce millions of spores.
Those spores are so very tiny that they float everywhere in the air. To see any of these images full size, just click on them. Please note that the scale markings are twice what they should be. It is 12 mm in diameter, and show the extremely low magnification that SEMs are capable of, still with good resolution and very great depth of field. Bread mold is really one of the simplest forms of fungus.