Invasion Of The Mind-Controlling Zombie Parasites : NPR:
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A few months back, something terrible happened to millions of flies around Washington, D.C.
"We were getting literally hundreds of reports of these crazy dead flies everywhere — on vegetation, on sign posts," says Mike Raupp, an entomologist at the University of Maryland.
He says the flies were attacked by a mind-controlling fungus.
"It basically zombie-izes them. In other words, it manipulates their behavior," Raupp says. "[The fly] moves to a high point, let's say the tip of a blade of grass."
The fly freezes at the tip of the leaf, and the fungus spews more mind-controlling spores into the wind.
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