Immediately
to the left is a young scale insect that is walking on top of the basidiospores.
It may stay with the colony, join another colony or if another colony is absent,
a new one will form from the spores that are on its body.L-section through part of a Septobasidium colony
Immediately
to the left is a young scale insect that is walking on top of the basidiospores.
It may stay with the colony, join another colony or if another colony is absent,
a new one will form from the spores that are on its body.
Further within the colony, directly to the left of the text, is a section through a scale insect that is in a chamber. This insect has numerous haustoria, from the fungus, in its body and is immobile.
Just below the parasitized insect is the host plant. A suctorial tube has been inserted into the host by the insect and it is obtaining nutrients from the host plant.