Most cordyceps I find on horsetail stems grow from flies.

I wasn't even paying much attention when I picked this one up,
assuming it was the same.

But—
no.
It wasn't.

It looked more like a tiny cricket,
holding a mushroom-shaped umbrella,
dusted with red spores.

Noted: a new host-fungus association on horsetail-
previously unrecorded in my field notes.

August 2023, Jilin