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Bryology (MOSS) Encore with Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer

Ologies with Alie Ward

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What's the Difference Between Moss and Insects?

For the most part, mosses are so well chemically defended that not much eats them. Insects scrape off epiphytic algae and fungi; they're eating the stuff growing on the moss. They have antimicrobials in those leaves that make them unpalatable to other organisms. Spanish moss is named after its resemblance to a beard lichen, but it's also not a lichen or from Spain.

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