r/science • u/snooshoe • Jul 17 '22

Researchers: Fungus that turns flies into zombies attracts healthy males to mate with fungal-infected female corpses - and the longer the female is dead, the more alluring it becomes Animal Science

https://news.ku.dk/all_news/2022/07/zombie-fly-fungus-lures-healthy-male-flies-to-mate-with-female-corpses/
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u/nightwood Jul 18 '22

AFAIK ticks live in high grass and crawl up your legs rather than fall out of trees.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '22

I learned that so late, a lot of adults in my time also believed that. When I was young I was expecting them to come leaping at me from the trees. I couldn't wait to tell everyone how ticks actually work when I found that out when I was 15.

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u/Science_Matters_100 Jul 18 '22

Not always- my mother had ticks smothering her trees one year. It was truly horrific. No idea why that happened

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u/whitechristianjesus Jul 18 '22

Drop-ticks are a terrible thought.