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Zombie cicadas in the US lure victims with promises of sex before passing on a deadly, mind-controlling parasite – Business Insider Australia
A parasitic fungus can control the minds of cicadas, leading them to act like the undead.
- Male cicadas infected with a particular parasitic fungus lose their minds and go on a mating frenzy – even as the fungus causes their genitals to rot.
- These insects have reemerged in West Virginia. Researchers nicknamed them “flying salt shakers of death.”
- A new study examined how the fungus manipulates its hosts to maximise the number of new cicadas it can infect.
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