"Stranger than science fiction." That's how an ecologist describes a strange fungus that hijacks cicadas’ bodies and behavior, turning them into "zombies."
CNN reports on the the fungus Massospora cicadina and how it's impacting some of the cicadas emerging this year: https://flip.it/cxfw5K
@ScienceDesk@NatureMC interesting, there are a few more fungi like this, like the one that Richard Dawkins describes in, I believe, "the extended phenotype" - a fungus that takes over an ant, crawls it to the top of the highest place around and the makes the ant's feelers it's fruit, swollen and bright red, attracting a bird to complete the fungus' life cycle.
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