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#340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World

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I'm Sucking Up the Carpenter Ants, So I Got You.

CNN's John Sutter talks about an experiment he did with his daughter. He tried to trick carpenter ants into eating rice by putting it on a doll dish. The dish was swarming with them, and they ate all of the rice. But after sifting through piles of sawdust in their lab, there was no evidence that any had eaten the rice. Now Mr Sutter has figured out how to use this attractant against other pests such as termites.

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