When people talk about crazy zombie fungi that hijack bug bodies, they're usually talking about cordyceps. I recently learned about this similar fungal pathogen that lives in dank basement and likes to attach itself to common cellar spiders through the joints in their legs, slowly consuming their insides until all that's left is a fuzzy white ghost husk hanging in your basement. Neat.
Fuzzy white fungus eats spiders alive but it's not cordyceps
Newly discovered fungal zombie spiders named for Sir David Attenborough
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Research suggests that spiders may dream of webbed sheep
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People are collecting illegal tarantulas "like they're Pokemon"
"People collect spiders a bit like people collect Pokemon – they want to 'catch 'em all'," says University of Hong Kong biologist Alice Hughes. She's referring to the booming global… READ THE REST
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