00:00Infected cicadas keep flying through the air while solid fungal spores replace their muscle tissue.
00:06The parasitic fungus Massasora, closely related to toliocladium,
00:11infects cicadas with psychoactive chemicals, manipulating their behavior while they remain alive.
00:17Chemical weapons hijack the nervous system, so the host remains active and spreads the infection everywhere.
00:23Internal organs dissolve completely and turn into hard, chalky masses packed with millions of microscopic spores.
00:31This relentless biological puppet master ensures that infected cicadas keep flying through the air
00:37while solid fungal spores replace their muscle tissue.
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