mycophagyn.

1865 Reader 30 Sept. 368/2 Mycophagy, a grand name for what West of England boys call eating ‘twoad's meeyat’.

1926 Mycologia 18 95 Under the heading of ‘Mycophagy’ we will be glad to publish in Mycologia original notes or observations on the merits of the various species of fungi, as articles of diet.

1943 Amer. Midland Naturalist 29 543 It is better to learn to distinguish accurately a few common species..than to indulge in indiscriminate mycophagy.

1995 D. R. Benjamin Mushrooms: Poisons & Panaceas ii. 30 Mycophagy in western cultures.

1950 A. P. Kelley Mycotrophy in Plants xi. 151 As Frank continued to study mycorrhizae, he saw digestion of the mycelium and was led to develop another idea which may be termed ‘mycophagy’. According to this concept, the ‘fungus-eating plants’ are able to draw their victim into the protoplasm,..and finally to digest it.

1951 Ecology 32 742/2 Mycophagy, animal or human.

1968 Evolution 22 794/1 Separation of niches of the two species is likely to be maintained by selective mycophagy.

1988 Jrnl. N.Y. Entomol. Soc. 96 452 Pallodes adult and larval mandibles are adapted for mycophagy with cutting spines on the incisor edges, a well developed prostheca and an asperate mola.

1996 Oikos 75 67 Our study is the first to clearly demonstrate and quantify mycophagy by a millipede.

2001 Q. Rev. Biol. 76 169 There exist no unambiguous reports of facultative mycophagy in ants.