Fascinating. They lose their genitals to the fungus and pretend to be the opposite sex to lure members of the same sex to them to maximize opportunities to spread the infection. Such predatory behavior sounds awfully familiar.
I know it's not everyone's cup of tea but I've always found this sort of thing fascinating. Insects in general but also the specifics of behavior altering stimuli such as cordyceps fungi. The fact some cicada can lose their entire abdomen to fungal infection and get turned into flying spore dispersal canisters is an incredible mechanical and evolutionary feat.
Uh... OK. Supposedly this is already going to be a big year for cicadas because a couple of their breeding cycles will intersect. I guess we'll have to look out for these special sex pests in the middle of all that.
Oh, are the 13 year and 17 year cycles overlapping for once? Only happens once every 221 years and given individually the resulting swarms literally blanket forest floors I'm genuinely interested in seeing this and wish I could see it in person.
Expect to see a shitty horror monster movie about this soon. After seeing Coke Bear I recently saw an ad for Meth Gator or something along those lines.
Ready for the insect net mafia. I wear my insect net to protect you, you wear yours to protect me. It's too dangerous to go vote, we will have to mail them all in.
Fascinating. They lose their genitals to the fungus and pretend to be the opposite sex to lure members of the same sex to them to maximize opportunities to spread the infection. Such predatory behavior sounds awfully familiar.
Necromorphs.
Fuck! Keep the gays away from it unless you want to live in the Last of Us!! /s
Those bug chasers are lubing themselves up already.
I know it's not everyone's cup of tea but I've always found this sort of thing fascinating. Insects in general but also the specifics of behavior altering stimuli such as cordyceps fungi. The fact some cicada can lose their entire abdomen to fungal infection and get turned into flying spore dispersal canisters is an incredible mechanical and evolutionary feat.
Uh... OK. Supposedly this is already going to be a big year for cicadas because a couple of their breeding cycles will intersect. I guess we'll have to look out for these special sex pests in the middle of all that.
Oh, are the 13 year and 17 year cycles overlapping for once? Only happens once every 221 years and given individually the resulting swarms literally blanket forest floors I'm genuinely interested in seeing this and wish I could see it in person.
Expect to see a shitty horror monster movie about this soon. After seeing Coke Bear I recently saw an ad for Meth Gator or something along those lines.
I'm not sure whether to be impressed or not at the creativity of this 🤔
Ready for the insect net mafia. I wear my insect net to protect you, you wear yours to protect me. It's too dangerous to go vote, we will have to mail them all in.
Time to add some new spaces to the apocalypse bingo cards.
What a weird Jurassic World 3/TLOU crossover.
Wonder how much of Bill Gates and Fauci playing God with fucked up gain of function research is tied into this.
It's a disease that's been documented for over 200 years. The emerging cicadas have been dormant for years.
neato
Now now. Let's not go kink shaming. /s