Amanita Muscaria, commonly known as the bug agaric or fly amanita, is a basidiomycete of the genus Amanita. It is also a muscimol mushroom. Native through the temperate and boreal precincts of the Northern Hemisphere.

Amanita muscaria has been inadvertently introduced to many countries in the Southern Hemisphere. Commonly as a symbiont with pine and birch plantation, and is now a true catholic species.

It associates with different deciduous and coniferous trees. Amanita muscaria is traditionally used for catching files possibly due to its content of ibotenic acid and muscimol. newly, an analysis of nine different methods for preparing A.

Muscaria for catching files in Slovenia has shown that the release of ibotenic acid and muscimol did not depend on the solvent and that thermal and mechanical processing led to faster extraction of ibotenic acid and muscimol.