Mushrooms could help save the world's bees

SEATTLE — The epiphany that mushrooms could help save the world's ailing bee colonies struck Paul Stamets while he was in bed. "I love waking dreams," he said. "It's a time when you're just coming back into consciousness." Years ago, in 1984, Stamets had noticed a "continuous convoy of bees" traveling from a patch of mushrooms he was growing and his beehives. The bees actually moved wood chips to access his mushroom's mycelium, the branching fibers of fungus that look like cobwebs. "I