Appreciation: The Flying Dead

... a cicada fungus called Massopora contains chemicals similar to those found in hallucinogenic mushrooms.
The fungus causes cicadas to lose their limbs and eccentric behavior sets in ...

WVU Today | ‘Flying salt shakers of death’: The lives of fungal-infected zombie cicadas, explained by WVU researchers

 

Thank you allelopath - You always post such interesting things! I really appreciate that :-)

 

It's nice to know that there are others who find this sort of stuff interesting.

 

Yes, this is a very interesting article and nicely written. I hope nothing like that ever infests humans.

 

Pertinent to the cicada emergence this summer in the eastern US:

https://www.southbendtribune.com/ne...lOy9IOJGYJjFdqVjtKrfkWaJoDzrCRXDHXedlAoPrikP0

 

Yah I have seen some great bumper stickers and things on the Brood X theme - Time to Scream and all that :-)

 

Related, entymologically speaking:

Fatal Fungus Threatens to Wipe Out Texan Crazy Ants

Fatal Fungus Threatens to Wipe Out Texan Crazy Ants — And That’s Good - Oddee