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A mushroom makes ants into real zombies, making them live as dead to achieve their aims.
The study revealed that the fungus prefers lower leaves sprout in the northwestern part of the plants that grow on the forest floor. That's where temperature, humidity and sunlight are ideal for fungus, and right there is where they infect more ants.
Once infected by the fungus, the ants are forced to come down to this location, which clings to the leaves with their jaws, being nailed before he died. It's amazing the accuracy of the fungus, it manages to give life to the ant enough to get to the venue, a way that costs hours of traveling, and after he dies, with a surprisingly programmed death.
After death, the fungus is growing inside her. Scientists have found that the fungus becomes parasitic ant gut into sugars, a kind of fertilizer that helps you grow, but leaves the control of jaw muscles intact to ensure that the ant falls sheet.
The fungus also preserves the ants outside, keeping it isolated from other fungi or microbes, creating a protective layer over ella.Y, after a week or two, the fungus spores fall to the forest floor, where other victims can chop hook.
But the ants, which are not silly, and some are even carnivorous, also react. Nest in other parts of the forest could be an attempt to prevent infection, because once they fall into the trap is not worth no ransom, according to the study. In addition, the frightened animals also seem to avoid foraging in areas where the fungus is present, which could be a strategy adaptation has not yet confirmed any study.
Once infected by the fungus, the ants are forced to come down to this location, which clings to the leaves with their jaws, being nailed before he died. It's amazing the accuracy of the fungus, it manages to give life to the ant enough to get to the venue, a way that costs hours of traveling, and after he dies, with a surprisingly programmed death.
After death, the fungus is growing inside her. Scientists have found that the fungus becomes parasitic ant gut into sugars, a kind of fertilizer that helps you grow, but leaves the control of jaw muscles intact to ensure that the ant falls sheet.
The fungus also preserves the ants outside, keeping it isolated from other fungi or microbes, creating a protective layer over ella.Y, after a week or two, the fungus spores fall to the forest floor, where other victims can chop hook.
But the ants, which are not silly, and some are even carnivorous, also react. Nest in other parts of the forest could be an attempt to prevent infection, because once they fall into the trap is not worth no ransom, according to the study. In addition, the frightened animals also seem to avoid foraging in areas where the fungus is present, which could be a strategy adaptation has not yet confirmed any study.
This evil living produces spores that land on an ant leaves him hooked. Once this happens, a filament within the ant grows, devouring. And this is not the worst, because when it reaches the brain of the poor ant, the fungus manages to make you believe that there are pheromones (a substance that guide) where there are none. It is at this time, the ant pheromones freaks and starts acting like a zombie, under the command of the fungus. Thus, leads to a plant, making the scale and that its highest point, is subjected to stem strength. Having achieved this, eats your brain and kills her. The fungus begins to grow (in the video looks exactly how you grow a branch at high speed) and when it completes its development from the top of the plant that has risen due to the ant, new release spores that infect more ants, repeating the whole process again. Terrible
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(Via: Ecology / blog.com)
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