Behold, Massospora! The Insect Pandemic That Turns Cicadas Into Uncontrollable Sex Addicts

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Oh great, just what we need! A pandemic that discourages hand-washing!

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Try Cicada-shaped Soap!

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Just wait till this make the jump to humans. /s

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Bwah! I’m… good, thanks!

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Ha. Oh, crap: “…News Reports Describe Humans Making Cicada-Like Copulating Noises As Our Population Plummets Out of Control Due to Hu-Massospora…”

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Implying that cicadas aren’t already uncontrollable sex addicts :wink:

Also…

a warm droning tone

is not how I would describe the endless scream of cicada mating season, but that might just be me.

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Important Cicada News: Spotted one napping on my hand in the backyard! Don’t wake him!

Joking, this is a husk of one found today near one of our trees that lived a good non-Massaspora life. Happy discovery.

If you get close to the photo you’ll still hear it chirping.

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