Sure, here they are:
1, 2 - 18/8/22, pine and fir forest, moth, same place where a cluster of 7 N.brevicollis infected was found;
3 - 4/10/22, beech forest just a couple kilometers away from the spot of observation 1;
4, 5 - tettigonid cricket leg and body, same beech forest;
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I tuoi reperti sono anche fedeli alla loro posizione e allo stesso tempo (+/- 1-2 settimane)?
Yes, they are, yesterday it snowed here and we tried to find some other specimens but we couldn't find any.
I'll investigate more accurately on italian fungi databases, unfortunately I guess it is far from common, but since we saw it it has intrigued us so much that we remember it very well and sometimes look for it.
Howeever these woods seem to be a good environment for entomopathogenic fungi since we found other parasitized insects such as Pentatoma rufipes, a tettigonid cricket and a moth.
Thanks for your help and specially for the publication, it was crucial for us to understand what we were looking at! -
We searched some informations about the observations in Italy but couldn't find any. You can find some details about ours here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/106909547
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/106910387
Yesterday we observed another, after searching for it (not so accurately), maybe it is interesting to notice that the weather here has been extremely dry with respect to the moment of the year, and just after a moderate rain we easily spotted one (the temperature was about 5°C). -
Hi Thorben,
I am an italian naturalistic guide spending a lot of time in beech and fir forests in northern-central Italy (Appennines, not Alps).
In the last three years, my girlfriend and I found many different spots with individuals likely belonging to N. brevicollis, probably parasitized by the fungus which you described in the paper.
I came across this blog only today and I understood you are one of the authors, if you are interested in these data i'd be very happy to share them with you. As you wrote, I found them in F. sylvatica forests and Picea abies or Pseudotsuga manziesii ones, always on wet soil at the base of a tree or on the side of exposed soil, up to 30/40 cm above ground level. (between 800 and 1200 m altitude).
