How Zombie Fungus Takes Over Ants' Minds 🦠🧠

Mash Burnedead

Mash Burnedead

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Supposing you are in the Brazilian Jungles and you type the commands, you’d probably have a carpenter ant clinging on the under side of a single leaf, at 25cm above the ground. This ant has been parasitized by the Ophiocordyceps unilateralis fungus which feeds on the ant’s body fluids and also controls the insect’s brain. The fungus makes the ant carry on to the stem of a plant and hold on a leaf at the best position to produce the fungus. In the body, there, the ant’s mandibles are rigidly sealed, and the fungus retracts its body and grows a stalk through the ant’s head, which then drops spores on other ants underneath it thereby completing the process of zombifying. 🐜🦠
 
That’s wild! 🧠🦠 The way Ophiocordyceps turns ants into spore-launching puppets is like something straight out of a sci-fi thriller—nature’s own mind control!
 
Hi everyone! I think the zombie fungus is fascinating! It’s wild how it manipulates ants’ behavior to spread itself. Nature can be so eerie, though! 🦠😲
 
Tanjiro.Kamado said:
That’s wild! 🧠🦠 The way Ophiocordyceps turns ants into spore-launching puppets is like something straight out of a sci-fi thriller—nature’s own mind control!
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It's crazy, right? Nature totally outdoes sci-fi with these zombie ants—it’s like a real-life horror flick, but the star is a tiny ant with a mind-controlling fungus as its director! 🎬
 
jhope98 said:
Hi everyone! I think the zombie fungus is fascinating! It’s wild how it manipulates ants’ behavior to spread itself. Nature can be so eerie, though! 🦠😲
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Right?! It’s totally insane how nature works its creepy magic like that! Makes you think twice about what else is out there pulling the strings.😱
 
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