Parasite fills cicadas with amphetamines and mind-altering drugs

Yeah I thought of cordyceps too…
Trigger warning: It’s pretty gross.

I find quite a few grasshoppers in our community pool every year:


Not so obvious an infection but I suspect it’s a fungus telling them to “swim.”

ETA: Cordyceps is a real fungus on our planet. It is, AFAIK, just a parasite on insects.

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It has been done:

Safe for work, just the surprisingly jaunty theme tune.

Pizza al Funghi?

Band name: Genital-Devouring Fungus and the Decaying Wood

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