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Cordyceps sinensis is a combination of insects and fungi. The insects are the larvae of Cordyceps hepialus and the fungi are Cordyceps fungi. In midsummer, when the snow and ice melt on the snowy meadow at an altitude of more than 3,8 meters, the tiny bat moth leaves thousands of eggs in Qian Qian on the flowers and leaves. Then moth eggs turn into bugs, drill into wet and loose soil, absorb the nutrition of plant roots, and gradually raise their bodies white and fat.

At this time, when the spherical ascospores meet the larvae of Cordyceps sinensis, they get into the worm, absorb its nutrients and germinate hyphae. The larvae infected by fungi gradually creep to a place two to three centimeters away from the surface, and die from head to tail. This is the "winter worm".

Although the larva is dead, the fungus in the body grows gradually until it fills the whole insect body. In the late spring and early summer of next year, a purple grass grows on the head of the insect, which is about two to five centimeters high and has a pineapple-shaped capsule at the top. This is "summer grass".

Formation process of Cordyceps sinensis:

Cordyceps sinensis grows in summer. Insects are larvae of Cordyceps sinensis, which is a kind of Cordyceps sinensis. In summer, eggs lay eggs on grass and land with flowers and leaves. After an incubation period of about one month, it will drill into wet soft soil. Fungal spores in soil only affect those lipids and mature larvae.

when the larvae are attacked by spores, they will drill into the shallow layer. Spores grow in larvae, and the internal organs of larvae slowly disappear. The body became a body full of mycelium and was buried in the soil. After a winter, the second spring came, hyphae began to grow, and a piece of grass grew from the ground in summer, so that the body and the larvae of the grass formed a complete Cordyceps.