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The History of the Fairy Rings

Jackson and Bondi, you were mushroom foraging recently. You noticed that the Bogong Moths dive bomb straight towards our campfire. What makes moths attracted to life? They use lights at night for navigating. We've got miles from Central Victoria here. Miles, what's your question? Yeah, good. Hi, doctors. I was just wondering why the field mushrooms grow in circles. Ah, and what sort of time period are you seeing this over? Ah, I just saw it the other day in the paddock. Right. So this goes back a long way. Shakespeare talks about it in The Tempest, about the green rings, being the mushroom rings. And they were

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