Besides humans what other animals eat mushrooms?
A wide range of animals are known to eat wild mushrooms (e.g. badgers, bears, chipmunks, deer, mice, pigs, rabbits, squirrels, slugs, snails and many insects including ants and termites which cultivate their own fungus gardens). Do not assume that it is safe for humans to eat the same species that animals consume without any apparent ill effects. It is claimed that deer and rabbits can eat poisonous fungi with impunity. I was wondering if you could help. At the weekend I found a site in Nottinghamshire that has many wild mushrooms, I picked one or two of each type. After getting home and looking them up in a book, the selection of woodland mushrooms was just too much to work out what was what. So do you know of any really good Web site that explains what is edible and what is not? Currently no Web site can offer even a fraction of the information that you can find in a good field guide. There are many species of fungi and it can seem very confusing at first so the best advice I can giv
