冬虫夏草又叫虫草,是一种很奇特的生物。它冬天是虫,夏天是草。这究竟是怎么一回事呢? 原来,冬虫夏草是虫与菌的结合体,是一种真菌类的植物寄生在一种昆虫身上。这虫是蝙蝠蛾的幼虫,菌是一种真菌。这种真菌的子囊孢子成熟后,散落在土壤中,遇到蛰居在土壤中过冬的蝙蝠蛾幼虫,就钻入幼虫身体里,萌发成菌丝体,吸收幼虫体内的营养。最后虫体被菌丝体充满,只剩下一个空壳。所以,冬天从表面 Cordyceps sinensis, also known as Cordyceps, is a very strange creature. It is pest in winter and summer is grass. This is exactly what happened? It turned out that Cordyceps sinensis is a combination of insects and bacteria, is a fungal plant parasitic on an insect body. The worm is a bat moth larvae, the fungus is a fungus. After the ascospores of this fungus have matured, they are scattered in the soil and encounter the bat moth larva that lives in the soil during the winter. They drill into the body of the larva and germinate into mycelium to absorb the nutrition of larvae. The last body is full of mycelium, leaving only an empty shell. So, winter from the surface