Since mushrooms do tend to "suck up" whatever they are growing on, are you trying to somehow give them this natural "invulnerabity" to ward off contams and the like to prolong fruiting?

However, like I mentioned, these roaches may have eaten poison themselves and are immune, thus passing it on to the fungus and getting ppl sick inadvertanly.

Good luck

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He who controls the spice, controls the universe....

but theris no chance of fruiting this fungus exept the way he likes it most ....on buried(cased) insects....the chinese take silk-caterpillars....also this insects have been breeded to feed reptiles...so they are garanteed free of any shit like the roaches in the kitchen....

the mycelium covered them in 4 days!!!!!...now i let it grow thru and then case them....

lookin forward to make a tea out of this crazy cannibal fungus....heh.

BiO.

BTW...im a cannibal toooo.....i love sushi.sashimi.maki

greetings...BiO.

Did you isolate the culture from the wild?

Does anyone know any literature/refs on the subject of growing cordyceps on buried inoculated insects?

BiO.