• 🐋 Color 🔱 ♀
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    308 months ago

    I don’t know why but mushrooms growing on things like carpet/flooring really scares me for some reason 😂 😱

    • @mouserat@discuss.tchncs.de
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      188 months ago

      Me too - for me because things like my floor are meant to be durable, and seeing it being destroyed so easily just by some spores flying around discomfits me.

      • @the_third@feddit.de
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        78 months ago

        I’m so glad my house is inorganic from the ground up to the roof timber. Yes, wet spots would nourish mold, but the concrete and the bricks themselves wouldn’t be much affected by it. Or termites! Imagine having a house that could be rendered unusable by an overlooked insect problem. I just don’t like the idea.

      • @evranch@lemmy.ca
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        68 months ago

        Fungus can consume nearly anything organic, but it has to be damp. Even “dry rot” is only dry when you see it, it was once wet for the mycelium to spread through it.

        I grew up in a wet climate where we feared mold and fungus, now I live in a dry one where we run humidifiers. You won’t ever see mildew or black mold here without a constant moisture source.