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Urban and Community Integrated Pest Management
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Mushrooms and Other Nuisance Fungi in Lawns
![Newly emerged inky cap mushrooms, Coprinus comatus. [R.M.Davis] Newly emerged inky cap mushrooms, Coprinus comatus. [R.M.Davis]](http://ucanr.edu/blogs/UCIPMurbanpests//blogfiles/41367small.jpg)
Wet weather is favorable to mushrooms, which are sometimes called toadstools. Mushrooms are the visible reproductive (fruiting) structures of some types of fungi. Although the umbrella-shaped fruiting body is the most common and well known, mushrooms...