Maybe your best yet @41Strange #revolting.
A fly’s head after it has been infected with a deadly parasitic fungus named Cordyceps (Photo: Faiz Bustamente) https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5120743/amp/Nightmarish-image-fly-head-infected-zombie-fungus.html …pic.twitter.com/H5RyUkdZXq
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Amazing how this resembles a skull...
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should be an album cover for a metal band.
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Cordyceps should be the name of a metal band (if is not already)
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i was thinking the exact same thing lmao
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Me three. Was just about to go on iTunes to see if it's taken.
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Love The Last Of Us for introducing me to this horrifying fungus.
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Same one in The Girl With All The Gifts IIRC
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Don't know that one, might have to check it out.
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Inspiration for the creatures of the Last of Us who are humans affected by a strain of Cordyceps.pic.twitter.com/Aqt6psYseK
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ok that is legitimately creepy
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Woah that’s brutal as fuck.
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This would make one killer metal album cover!
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this surely is heavily altered, either digitally or physically, to bear resemblance to skull and bones. still, the very thought that a fungus can kill an animal in such a gruesome way is terrifying...
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No it's clearly the remains of the fly decomposing.
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two major objections: 1. no fungus would grow downward, but at least two of them appear to do so. i find no other picture of that behaviour. 2. the head of the fly. they don't have an endoskeleton, and their eyes are vastly different. i highly doubt they'd decompose in such way.pic.twitter.com/jHuFFIQ03V
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1. Fungi don't have the brainpower to plan. Getting the insect up higher than it would normally go guarantees the spores will be widely spread, no matter what direction the stalks grow in. 2. That's what a compound eye looks like when the entire body dries out. It collapses.
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