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It sounds like this fungus is a lot like what Disney does to human children.
Maybe they should call it “Disney Fungus”?
With their bulging red eyes and their alien-like mating sound, periodical cicadas can seem scary and weird enough. But some of them really are sex-crazed zombies on speed, hijacked by a super-sized fungus.
West Virginia University mycology professor Matt Kasson, his 9-year-old son Oliver, and graduate student Angie Macias are tracking the nasty fungus, called Massospora cicadina. It is the only one on Earth that makes amphetamine — the drug called speed — in a critter when it takes over. And yes, the fungus takes control over the cicada, makes them hypersexual, looking to spread the parasite as a sexually transmitted disease.
“They’re zombies, completely at the mercy of the fungus,” said University of Connecticut cicada researcher John Cooley.
This fungus isn’t the type of parasite that kills its host, but instead it needs to keep it alive, Kasson said. Then the infected cicadas attempt to mate with others, spreading the spores to its mate/victim. The males even pretend in their hypersexualized state to be females to entice and infect other males, he said.
The cousin to this fungus which infects annual cicadas out west also makes a psychoactive compound in the cicadas but it is more akin to psychedelics like magic mushrooms, Kasson said. So sometimes people, even experts, mix up the amphetamine that the infected 17- and 13-year cicadas produce with the more trippy compounds of the annual bugs, he said.
You kinda have to wonder if this was not made in a lab, no?
I don’t know that I really believe in virus warfare, but fungal warfare could definitely be a thing.
Even though the show sucked, and the sequel was horrible, the original “The Last of Us” game was the better zombie story, as the zombies were the result of a fungus rather than a virus.
There are several different types of fungus that can take over the brains and bodies of living things.
