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Description
Taken at night in Singapore forest.
See BBC video here www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuKjBI…
Quote from www.isopoda.net/photo-stories/…
Some fungi can attack animals, killing them in a in matter of days. In the tropics Cordyceps fungus spores germinate as soon as they touch the correct insect species. They quickly colonize the insect body and kill it without any visible sign on the external. Then, like something out of science fiction, the fruiting body of the Cordyceps erupt form the insect, giving birth to weird structure on the victim. Now the fungus can release spores once more, ready to parasitize new insects.
Most Cordyceps fungi are species-specific and attack only some insect species. Some are even able to alter behaviour of the victim, make the dying insect go higher on branches before killing it, to enhance spores dispersion.
See BBC video here www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuKjBI…
Quote from www.isopoda.net/photo-stories/…
Some fungi can attack animals, killing them in a in matter of days. In the tropics Cordyceps fungus spores germinate as soon as they touch the correct insect species. They quickly colonize the insect body and kill it without any visible sign on the external. Then, like something out of science fiction, the fruiting body of the Cordyceps erupt form the insect, giving birth to weird structure on the victim. Now the fungus can release spores once more, ready to parasitize new insects.
Most Cordyceps fungi are species-specific and attack only some insect species. Some are even able to alter behaviour of the victim, make the dying insect go higher on branches before killing it, to enhance spores dispersion.
Image size
1600x1067px 661.5 KB
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Shutter Speed
1/160 second
Aperture
F/16.0
Focal Length
100 mm
ISO Speed
100
Date Taken
Apr 24, 2016, 12:20:16 AM
Sensor Size
10mm
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They actually used this for "The last of us" except they applied it to humans and made it so they would go mad because of the fungus infecting the brain as it continued to grow in the system. Very interesting.