Clathrus archeri ( Devils Fingers, Octopus Stinkhorn fungi) erupting from their eggs time lapse

A group four of Clathrus archeri eggs (Devil s Finger s, Octopus Stinkhorn fungi) captured hatching under a time lapse camera over a period of just 59hrs. The most impressive one is right at the end. Like alien tentacles, these fungi erupt from their eggs covered in a brown slime containing their spores and relies on flies for it s distribution. The putrid spelling slime on the waving tentacles lures in flies who get coated in the spore containing slime and carry it away to germinate into a new crop of