Many animals happily eat mushrooms, especially large boletus. You can often find tooth marks in the flesh of the mushroom.
These small holes in the mushroom are made by the mushroom gnat, whose larvae live in the mushroom.
On the underside of a mushroom, you can find cavities caused by feeding slugs.
Hollow stems and a red secretion on chanterelle are traces of wireworm larvae. L-HO.
A mushroom with the tooth marks of a mouse.
Red Squirrels, smaller mammals, Rabbits, and deer also eat mushrooms. The bite marks may be difficult to identify because of the softness of the mushrooms.
A Spanish slug on a mushroom. AK.
