This is Ophiocordyceps Unilateralis, a fungus that attacks carpenter ants and turns them into zombies by controlling the insects' bodiespic.twitter.com/t2TJ4Cwe32
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Just you wait until you hear about the green banded broodsac (Leucochloridium paradoxum) Turns the snail into a zombie and forces it to do what it wants. Infects the snail's digestive system first. Sporocysts reinfect eyestalks after they grow back. https://emotingsheep.wixsite.com/symbiosis-project/interesting-facts …pic.twitter.com/SJjWckIg1u
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The Last Of Us.
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If A Bug's Life was Weekend At Bernie's.
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The ants after they have become zombiespic.twitter.com/PfAdj3lkZc
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They cling to the undersides of leaves so the fungus can scatter its spores. It's nowhere near as dramatic as any zombie media makes it out to be.
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Don't they die afterward, though?
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Yeah, from either thirst/hunger or the mushrooms toxicity. However healthy ants are capable of recognizing infected ones and will carry them away before they do more harm.
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Needs a MAGA hat.
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Hay un documental de esto en YT. Tenés que ver. Es muy interesante.
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Voy a buscar... No sabía que había este tipo de hongos
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En realidad es una enfermedad.
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I get it they go after carpenter ants so they can get cheap labor for building their housing developments
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