Squirrels often dig up and eat the fruiting bodies of a subterranean mushroom.
Common in scrub, flying squirrels typically convert holes made by woodpeckers in dead or dying trees into nest cavities. When it comes to mushrooms, it pays to be fast. Flies , attracted to a mushroom's odor, can usually locate a mushroom faster than a wingless insect. Fly eggs also hatch quickly, which means the young are more likely to grow and prosper than the eggs of an insect that moves or develops more slowly. This pleasing fungus beetle , commonly found munching and laying eggs on mushrooms, was named by an entomologist because its brightly colored body was pleasing to the eye.