Photo“I found the fairy in the fairy-tale forest,” he wrote in a caption for the image above. They are called the fly agaric because in some places, people lace milk with bits of it to lure and kill flies. In January, news reports suggested that eating fly agaric fungi made fearless coyotes terrorize motorists in the moonlight in California. Reindeer historically have tripped on them too, and in some places fly agaric has even been associated with Christmas. If this fairy tale now sounds like a nightmare, then look, but don’t ingest.

Source: New York Times October 17, 2017 16:30 UTC