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Zombified Ants: Attack of the Killer Fungi Cordyceps

Cordyceps, while an amazing medicinal mushroom, has a creepy back story. This fungus is capable of wiping out entire colonies of ants. First, it infects the ant's nervous system, zombifying it to do its bidding by climbing to a particular spot on a plant, so it can devour and transform it from the inside out. Watch this amazing BBC episode on the killer fungi cordyceps.

November 27, 2013
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Cordyceps, while an amazing medicinal mushroom, has a creepy back story. This fungus is capable of wiping out entire colonies of ants. First, it infects the ant's nervous system, zombifying it to do its bidding by climbing to a particular spot on a plant, so it can devour and transform it from the inside out. Watch this amazing BBC episode on the killer fungi cordyceps.

Originally published November 27, 2013 on GreenMedTV.

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