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Ophiocordyceps are famous for their habit of infesting and killing a host insect, typically an ant. The entomopathogenic fungus manipulates its host to climb to an elevated location and clamp on with its mandibles. The insect then succumbs to a grisly death as fungal bodies break out to disperse spores.
iNaturalist observation
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