My guess right now is absence of transmission mechanism (unless the insect is social). Example of bacterial infection in a social insect:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_foulbrood …
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Can't expect an immune answer or infection of dead cells.
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So mostly affected during molting etc.
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Fungal spores are big?
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Being more complex organisms than bacteria, fungi are able to pursue more proactive dissemination strategies https://youtu.be/XuKjBIBBAL8
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one hypothesis: mammals are unusually resistant to fungi because of endothermy https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3420938/ … arthropods have plenty of viruses tho -baculoviruses, iridoviruses, all the arboviruses like yellow fever...
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