Fungal cultivation has evolved separately around 10 times, though only insects seemed to figure out this fungal farming ecology. That is until two researchers described a non-insect fungal cultivator that maintains fungal gardens on cordgrass in intertidal marine habitats called marshes. Everybody, I'd like you to meet the fungal farming snail.
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Littoraria irrorata on cordgrass (Spartina sp.)