This Zombie Fungus Mind Controls Insects

Animal zombies might not behave like the zombies you’ve seen on “The Walking Dead.” Instead, these zombies lose control over their bodies and behavior when infected by parasitic fungi called Cordyceps. Cordyceps has over 400 varieties and infects as many as 10 different insect groups. Some specialize in one kind of insect, like carpenter ants. Others don’t discriminate, infecting a variety of insects. Over four to five days, the Cordyceps fungus spores grow by feeding on their host's organs. Insect behavior shows no signs of pain. The infected insects instead get increasingly hyperactive, hypersexual or zombie-like. How about having your brain overrun by a deadly parasite while being eaten alive? If you were an insect this is one fungus you’d want to avoid.

00:00 Zombie insects
00:36 Animal zombies
01:13 Spore growth
01:22 Hyperactive insects
02:17 Cordyceps infection
02:59 Massospora

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[threewiseman]

"Eating cordiceps might help..."
Nice try, fungus zombie. I'm not falling for your tricks.

[Da__goat]

Ok but imagine in the not too distant future, say 60 years, we can modify the zombie fungus into a biological weapon. That’s a terrifying thought.

[MagicMonica-ehuo]

IT'S not mind control, it's muscle control with the mind intact. Prisoner in your own body. Think about that.

[macwelch]

What if humans had the ability to artificially create and genetically engineer animals for war? Imagine a rat the size of the elephant

[allthingshorror]

I saw this on Facebook and now here I read about this in a Ripley's believe it or not book I didn't just find this out from the video I watched but in the book it says that it's a fungus that takes over the animal making it mindless and once it spreads it can take over other animals as well

[ipfreely]

Lol, I don't know what to say. 😅 Sounds like a Fun-guy! 😂👋

[RicosShelfofDragons]

I’m gonna caca If I saw this mine controller.

[buskingkarma]

This explains why Biden is the way he is!