That's the spider web types. There are also some that manifest as hazy
spots - white or yellowish. I believe someone identified 16 different
species in lenses. Spores are present in new in box lenses - so pervasive
are they in our environment.
The only long term treatment - use the lenses. The more light they get
through them, the less spore germination is possible. Or train the dust
mites to graze on them.
AndrewF
>What you see when you look with shocked amazement through your
>infected lens is semi-transparent tubes (the hyphae, or body, of the fungus),
>wandering over the surface of your precious glass. And that's it. The whole
>plant. Fungi also usually reproduce my seeds - in their case, minute spores.
>I have never seen fruiting bodies or sporophylls on fungus in a lens, though
>no doubt it is possible. They might look like a string of tiny beads on a
>slightly different style of hyphus.
>Cheers, Brian.
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