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Bookmark or Share- Cordyceps is a real fungus—but is it dangerous? - National GeographicFruiting bodies erupt from a dead moth killed by the cordyceps fungus. The genetically related ophiocordyceps fungus similarly kills insects, but first makes its host body do its bidding.
- The zombie fungus from 'The Last Of Us' is real - NPROphiocordyceps unilateralis, otherwise known as cordyceps or zombie-ant fungus, infects insects such as ants or spiders. Like other parasites, cordyceps drains its host completely of...
- What scientists say about the real-life zombie fungi that ... - CNNThere are well over 100 known Ophiocordyceps species that infect a wide variety of insects, including butterflies, moths and beetles, and at least 35 that perform “mind control” on their hosts.
- What’s Up with Zombie Ants? - Library of CongressOphiocordyceps unilateralis is a parasitic fungus that infects carpenter ants. Parasitic fungi are not uncommon in the insect world, but what makes O. unilateralis uniquely creepy, and why it’s called the “zombie fungus,” is the strange way O. unilateralis affects the behavior of an ant for its own propagation.
- Ophiocordyceps unilateralis - WikipediaOphiocordyceps unilateralis, commonly known as zombie-ant fungus, [ 2 ] is an insect-pathogenic fungus, discovered by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in 1859. Zombie ants, infected by the Ophiocordyceps unilateralis fungus, are predominantly found in tropical rainforests.
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