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KAXE Morning Show

Phenology Talkbacks: Why do puffball mushrooms puff?

By Charlie Mitchell
Published April 10, 2024 at 12:21 PM CDT
Three puffball mushrooms grow on a downed long in St. Louis County on Sept. 27, 2014.
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Three puffball mushrooms grow on a downed long in St. Louis County on Sept. 27, 2014.

Please enjoy the seven reports for this week!

Please don’t hesitate to reach out with your observations, nature tales and insights! Get in touch with me (cmitchell@kaxe.org), John Latimer (jlatimer@kaxe.org), or text "phenology" to 218-326-1234.

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Charlie Mitchell
Charlie Mitchell (she/they) joined KAXE in February of 2022. Charlie creates the Season Watch Newsletter, produces the Phenology Talkbacks show, coordinates the Phenology in the Classroom program, and writes nature-related stories for KAXE's website. Essentailly, Charlie is John Latimer's faithful sidekick and makes sure all of KAXE's nature/phenology programs find a second life online and in podcast form.<br/><br/><br/>With a background in ecology and evolutionary biology, Charlie enjoys learning a little bit about everything, whether it's plants, mushrooms, or the star-nosed mole. (Fun fact: Moles store fat in their tails, so they don't outgrow their tunnels every time conditions are good.)
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