"Zombie fly. A parasitic fungus erupts from the body of a fly in the Tambopata National Reserve in Peru. Evolutionary biologist Roberto García Roa captured the shot, which won this year’s BMC Ecology and Evolution image competition. The spores of the ‘zombie’ fungus infiltrate the fly’s exoskeleton and brain and compel it to migrate to a location that is more favourable for the fungus’s growth.
Credit: Roberto García-Roa (CC BY 4.0)"
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-022-04372-2/index.html
@cyrilpedia omg that’s gross