“That 2015 study finally gave the culprit a name, after the researchers detected a fungus called Exidiopsis effusa on 78 hair-ice-bearing branches from 10 types of trees in the forests of Germany. Treating those branches with a fungicide stopped further hair ice from forming.”
Uh, thank you Germans? You may have misinterpreted the end goal.
Out of Babel 
I wonder what it tastes like. /BADJOKE
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Like … Fungus?
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Ekk! I don’whanna know. IT’S GROSS! 🤣
Seriously though, is this something new coming out of . . . . wait for it . . . the woodwork?
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And one more thing, since I’m a stickler for the last, not just one, but two words. Fungus doesn’t have a taste. Nana booboo.
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I defer to your superior knowledge of how fungus tastes.
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“That 2015 study finally gave the culprit a name, after the researchers detected a fungus called Exidiopsis effusa on 78 hair-ice-bearing branches from 10 types of trees in the forests of Germany. Treating those branches with a fungicide stopped further hair ice from forming.”
Uh, thank you Germans? You may have misinterpreted the end goal.
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Irish: I wonder what makes this rare, wispy frost?
Germans: Ve solved it mit fungicide.
Irish: …
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*laughs in caveman*
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Ha ha yes! I hope the fungicide thing was just done on a FEW trees, to CONFIRM that the cause was a fungus ….
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That is disgusting. Nature is disgusting. I feel vindicated in my plans to pave the planet…
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“Nature is disgusting.” XD
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