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Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, commonly known as zombie-ant fungus, [2] is an insect-pathogenic fungus, discovered by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in 1859, and currently found predominantly in tropical forest ecosystems.
Jun 11, 2019 · Zombie ants: meet the parasitic fungi that take control of living insects. Published: June 11, 2019 9:05am EDT. In the understorey of a tropical forest, a carpenter ant has descended from the...
Jun 10, 2024 · Zombie-ant fungus, (Ophiocordyceps unilateralis), species of parasitic fungus of the order Hypocreales that infects ants and alters their behaviour before killing them. The fungus is largely pantropical and primarily infects carpenter ants (genus Camponotus).
Apr 30, 2019 · Deep in the Amazon jungle, a parasitic fungus called cordyceps infect ants and other insects in order to reproduce. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscrib...
Apr 18, 2019 · The Ophiocordyceps unilateralis fungus has just one goal: self-propagation and dispersal. Researchers think the fungus, found in tropical forests, infects a foraging ant through spores that...
Oct 24, 2019 · Zombie ants couldn’t bite down on leaves anymore, because they fell off in the fall, before the fungi were done spreading to new hosts. Infected ants began hugging twigs instead.
Nov 10, 2017 · A new study is shedding light on the mysterious markings of zombie ants, tropical carpenter ants that take their orders from a fungus. The fungal vampire carves its way into an ant's body and...
Oct 5, 2015 · How Fungus Makes Ant Zombies. The parasitic fungus, Ophiocordyceps unilateralis sensu latu ( O. unilateralis, for short), infects the brains of Carpenter ants, turning them into zombies that...
Nov 8, 2012 · This strange cycle of undead life and death has been well documented and has earned the culprit the moniker: "zombie-ant" fungus —even in the scientific literature. But scientists are just...
Nov 14, 2017 · And its body belongs to Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, the zombie-ant fungus. When the fungus infects a carpenter ant, it grows through the insect’s body, draining it of nutrients and hijacking...
