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Nightmare fuel from today's bugging: a fully funginated ex-cicada (mander.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Bugger@mander.xyz to c/entomology@mander.xyz

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From today's chapter of "Nature, You Freaky" comes this fungally parasitized cicada I found today. I'm far from any kind of mycologist or parasitologist so if anyone's got more information I'd love to hear. It's almost beautiful, in a horrifying sort of way.

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[–] psyspoop@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Amazing. Any ideas on fungal species? Maybe Beauveria?

[–] GlennMagusHarvey@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the goosebumps 😬