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This Parasitic Fungus Turns Flies Into Zombie Insects
A fly is going about its day, buzzing here, buzzing there—but then, it starts behaving weirdly. Its movements become sluggish ...
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Bizarre rare ‘ALIEN’ fungus with ‘tentacles’ and a smell like rotting flesh is spotted growing in the UK
The smelly fungus looks like an egg with red tentacles and is also ... gorge on the rotting fungus, its spores latch onto their feet. As the insects fly away, they take the spores with them ...
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The real-life horror of cordyceps: nature's zombie-making fungi
In 2023, researchers uncovered new insights into the eerie world of fungi that transform ... attract wild fruit flies and found dead ones with wings raised and white fuzzy spores on their abdomens.
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Winter is the best time to prune oak trees to avoid oak wilt
Oak wilt is a fungal disease that can weaken white oaks and kill red oak trees within just a few ... of oak wilt requires beetles to carry viable spores flying to fresh wounds at a time when ...