I knew there were fungi that did this but I noticed in 2021 there was a much larger amount of grasshopper type insects clinging to the tops of tall grass stalks and other weeds that had died. I took note that they all had a white mold/fungus growing from them and they had their rear ends bent up in a way that looked unnatural, almost like an L. They would also raise their hind legs to the sky. They would essentially just die like that with their thorax pointed up and out to maximize wind dispersal and die of starvation I assumed.
@@WebsterHelios naah not all fungus can survive in hot/cold temperature zones. Something else will kill humans before a fungus does lol. Thats what flamethrowers are for a contagion
@@WebsterHelios I'm still amazed how in the amazon, amongst deadly insects, parasites, fungi, poisonous animals, and bacteria, there are still humans living there.
It was featured in The Swamp Thing with Batman in the 70's or 80's, and the Chinese prize cordycep for its medicinal properties. I had cordycep soup as a kid.
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How does the ant one work though? You explain how the cicada one works by flooding its brain with chemicals that make it more hungry and eager to mate so it spreads around the spores more but what does the ant one do to make the ant climb a tree and anchor itself to it?
@@tom360063 It's not about the why, it's about the how. How does the fungi get the ant to do this? In the case of cicada, it's chemicals that influence the cicada to do something it would also do naturally. What about the ant, though? Is there a chemical that tells ants to go high up and grip a tree? Or is it not just influencing but really "controlling" or "piloting" the ant to do this? That's the question and it interests me too.
I saw on another science channel's video the scary truth....they used a 3D electron microscope to analyze all angles in an ant's body and found the fungi surprisingly left the ants' brain alone....but hyphae were found inserted all over the muscles, pulling on the ant like a puppet. The infected ants are fully conscious but have their body controlled against their will. I'm speculating on this part, but maybe the ants are able to retain some kind of autonomic control, such as releasing panic pheromones that alert the other ants that something is wrong, which is why the ants carry the infected ants far from the colony? This is supported by another article that states "once the fungus reaches the brain, the ant dies" again, assuming the mandible muscles are directly controlled by the fungus to bite down once the fungus is ready to spread to the head and burst out.
@In4mant: your description is correct. Something extra, not metioned in the movie and comments below. Some species of fungi force a victim, an ant (direct muscle control) to climb up on a grass to be consumed later by cattle. Then defecated can spread wider and stronger. It is difficult to imagine how to the hell it was possible to generate such a behaviour in a way of evolution - too many ways, steps to develope depending on other creatures and environment. As for mandible: "the mandible muscles are directly controlled by the fungus to bite" ... surface of a grass almost on the top to keep this high position after dying!
i wonder the reason why there is a fungus that does this to insects, perhaps of mother natures way trying to contain the population. when compared to the balance of herbivores and predators
Yes, over in Asia Cordyceps fungi have been eaten as a traditional medicine for centuries now. The curious thing is that preliminary modern research seems to suggest that eating Cordyceps DOES have some physiological benefits for humans (although I highly doubt they're some new miracle cure, seeing as how the same said humans have been eating them for centuries and it's not like they're immortal supermen now, are they? ;P) , although further studies are needed to quantify what exactly those might be.
There are 17 and 13 year cicadas who by virtue of their prime number dormancy life cycle length never emerge en-masse during the same year. Get the god-botherers to explain that one.
I was walking along a stream one day and witnessed something that I just couldn't believe. It was a cricket I believe right at the waters edge. It was acting very strangely, - shifting from side to side. There before my eyes a big and nasty looking worm began exiting the cricket's anus. It looked like the worm was deliberately making for the water. That worm was HUGE ! It continued to leave the insect's body - it just kept coming and coming out, - I couldn't believe it ! I remember thinking - "How is all that nasty worm coming out from inside that little bug" ? I swear man, that REALLY freaked my ass-out big time. Kinda reminds me of the way some bugs use other bugs for incubators and food for their own young. You're paralyzed and then eggs are laid upon your chest. You are still very much alive and know exactly what is happening when the eggs hatch and begin eating you ! You just lie there while they eat and eat until their eating finally means your death. What goes through your mind as you lie there day in and day out slowly being eaten to death and you can't do a single thing about it ?
You should be a Arthur and write a book. You have a good way of talking that grabs people’s interest. If you ever decide to….don’t forget I was the one that gave you the idea lol
Imagine one day some mad scientist genetically modifies one of these fungi to be able to affect humans as a biological weapon but an accident happens where a variant makes contact with the public triggering the zombie apocalypse 😮
To explain confused people: 1. The insects are not dead, but their brain is being influenced or controlled by the fungi so rather than being undead like zombies they’re alive only to do the fungus bidding 2. This fungi does not affect humans yet (we’re not sure)
It's definitely possible, although we mammals would be a poor choice of host for such parasitic fungi due to our relatively slow birth and maturation rate. Insects are ideal hosts for such fungi because they are born, mature and die in such rapid cycles (plus they reproduce in immense numbers). If a Cordyceps fungus were to jump over to us, chances are the fungus would not be terribly successful because a) we're pretty intelligent creatures and we'd notice fairly rapidly if another human was behaving very oddly or had fungal growths on them, and b) if the fungus did take off, it would probably kill us all faster than we could reproduce and thus bring an end to the fungus once it has no other hosts around to feed off. The exception here might be if the fungus evolved into a form that wasn't lethal and could exist with us in a commensalistic (the fungus gains from us, but we are neither hurt nor benefit from the fungus) or even a mutualistic relationship (perhaps the fungus winds up producing nutrients or vitamins we otherwise can't produce for ourselves, or it strengthens our bodies or immune systems in some way).
@@Lili4Yah It already happens. ;) In China and some other Asian nations, people eat cordyceps-infested caterpillars as a delicacy. Despite this happening for hundreds of years, not a single case of humans getting infected with the fungus has ever occurred. (Likely our metabolisms and genetics are just too different from insects for the fungus to make the jump.)
Nobody came up with it, that's the beauty of evolution! I imagine that this method of parasitism and spore dispersal would have evolved over millions of years in parallel with these animals, so figuring out the "how" is going to be nigh on impossible. The "why" is far simpler of course. Because life!
@@TristanJCumpole exactly, the reason we see it is because it works and so it keeps happening. If it didn't work to make that particular species of fungi reproduce better then it just wouldn't happen again
@@oliverstaunton10 It's still amazing how that this endoparasitism is the propagation method for the entire genus. A large number of species over a wide geographical area, not just one odd example. The Cicada fungus is about as far removed from this line as humans are from pigeons!
Monkey pox. We told you not to get the swab. We told you not to get the injekshun. The walking-dead they've been preparing us for in our daily dose of TV programming.
I dont like cordyceps. So sad that the poor cicadas stay underground for years just to come out and be eaten by this deadly mushroom. Beautiful butterflies become ugly leftovers. Cordyceps destroy the lives of insects. And it's sad seeing how helpless they are.😑😟
Thank you for sharing this video ! It’s something never knew ! It’s sad though that everything on this planet revolves on death dying and the useless struggle to survive ! Wednesday January 12th 2021 ❤️❤️❤️😔😔😔😢😢😢
I knew there were fungi that did this but I noticed in 2021 there was a much larger amount of grasshopper type insects clinging to the tops of tall grass stalks and other weeds that had died. I took note that they all had a white mold/fungus growing from them and they had their rear ends bent up in a way that looked unnatural, almost like an L. They would also raise their hind legs to the sky. They would essentially just die like that with their thorax pointed up and out to maximize wind dispersal and die of starvation I assumed.
Ooo hmm really, who are you btw? Some kinda mad scientist?
The best mad scientist you've ever seen.
Notized the same thing, there where several grasshoppers what died this way...☝
@@-Ehrenbruder-Sam- shut up. Huppp patttt
Everyone should all be paying attention to anything we see like this. I have never seen this in person but wow it’s nuts.
There's a great book titled "Parasite Rex" which goes into detail how parasites have shaped history 🤩
Thanks for information ! I found it on Amazon.
Thanks, seems interesting.
Dawkins' "Extended Phenotype" is also a fantastic (albeit difficult) read about parasites
Oohh i use to want to be a parasitologist!but i became a nurse!:(
Thankzzz
Naughty Dog was brilliant turning this into a concept.
Lets hope it never makes the jump to human within our lifetimes. Evolution will find a way eventually though.
@@WebsterHelios no.
@@WebsterHelios naah not all fungus can survive in hot/cold temperature zones. Something else will kill humans before a fungus does lol. Thats what flamethrowers are for a contagion
@@WebsterHelios I'm still amazed how in the amazon, amongst deadly insects, parasites, fungi, poisonous animals, and bacteria, there are still humans living there.
Yes bro they were
What if an dead/infected ant gets carried by ant to rival colony? The ultimate weapon.
I was thinking the same thing. Why can't we use the spores as an insecticide? Pump them into a problem ant nest and let nature take it's course.
@@boges11 by doing this you might kill all ant colonies in this location
@@tvogler28 Same with pesticides that they take back into the colony
Antwars: Biohazard
Plague vibes
Cordyceps. The real parasitic fungal infection that inspired the infected in The Last Of Us.
It was featured in The Swamp Thing with Batman in the 70's or 80's, and the Chinese prize cordycep for its medicinal properties. I had cordycep soup as a kid.
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Cringe
@@chicken4090 no u
@@chicken4090 the cordyceps should get you first
No matter how old you are, this is the most suitable age to watch this channel :)
Big Fungus
Tarantula's can be affected too. I saw a picture of one within the pages of a Ripley's Believe it of Not book.
Check out 'Life in the Undergrowth', a BBC doc.
@@blucat4 , will do.
BBC Earth...
Just like National Geographic, but with style!
Am i the only one that thinks that BBC are much better than NAT Geo?
@@usupatuugames7442
In the younger past, NatGeo's motion content turned more and more into a tabloid format. BBC on the other side is just serious.
@@usupatuugames7442 100% agree. Everything done by BBC Earth is pure gold. We owe that to Sir David I guess.
BBC=BIG Black Cock
It’s how everything goes. Just look at RUclips today.
music too loud, voice too quiet
I wonder if ity would be possible to use Gain of Function research to recode it for other beings? scary thought.
How does the ant one work though? You explain how the cicada one works by flooding its brain with chemicals that make it more hungry and eager to mate so it spreads around the spores more but what does the ant one do to make the ant climb a tree and anchor itself to it?
I would imagine it’s to get high up so the spores can move in the wind much further, so other ant colonies can be affected.
@@tom360063 It's not about the why, it's about the how. How does the fungi get the ant to do this? In the case of cicada, it's chemicals that influence the cicada to do something it would also do naturally. What about the ant, though? Is there a chemical that tells ants to go high up and grip a tree? Or is it not just influencing but really "controlling" or "piloting" the ant to do this? That's the question and it interests me too.
Chemicals, same answer. It may be that scientists don't know how exactly.
I saw on another science channel's video the scary truth....they used a 3D electron microscope to analyze all angles in an ant's body and found the fungi surprisingly left the ants' brain alone....but hyphae were found inserted all over the muscles, pulling on the ant like a puppet. The infected ants are fully conscious but have their body controlled against their will. I'm speculating on this part, but maybe the ants are able to retain some kind of autonomic control, such as releasing panic pheromones that alert the other ants that something is wrong, which is why the ants carry the infected ants far from the colony?
This is supported by another article that states "once the fungus reaches the brain, the ant dies" again, assuming the mandible muscles are directly controlled by the fungus to bite down once the fungus is ready to spread to the head and burst out.
@In4mant: your description is correct. Something extra, not metioned in the movie and comments below. Some species of fungi force a victim, an ant (direct muscle control) to climb up on a grass to be consumed later by cattle. Then defecated can spread wider and stronger. It is difficult to imagine how to the hell it was possible to generate such a behaviour in a way of evolution - too many ways, steps to develope depending on other creatures and environment. As for mandible: "the mandible muscles are directly controlled by the fungus to bite" ... surface of a grass almost on the top to keep this high position after dying!
Reminds me of the toxic jungle from nausicaa of the vally of the wind
Truly amazing.
Nothing short of diabolical!
I never ever never expected these vicious acts from these tiny creatures...nature is love🔥
If you look carefully and on larger scales it's often chaos.
nature is far from love
Allah (god) is good
I dont care you like or not. If you research Allah god will found good thing only
@@adenfaris4798 الله اكبر
I love this, it's amazing and more amazing that naughty dog making it a game lol.
This amazing
I agree. The ultimate parasite.
2:24 is that a pangolin?
It's disturbing 😰
When the fungus is sick of insects, it will probably start going for bigger host like mammals.
@Guckchuck123 Chucker i'll be here
Remember kids, the next cicada swarm will be around 2038. Be prepared
Can you imagine if this fungus cloud infect humans? 😰
The last of us video game is about that
Everything is deader with Zombie Apocalypse.
Shhhh. Don't give an idea ibll gaets
@@munenex Please tell me you believe that the earth is flat beside not taking vaccine.
Yep. I see it. It has. Just watch what they (the humans) do when they catch it.
Such a shame about that ant, I knew him well, his name was Gav, he's a fun guy.
Wah wah waaaaaahhh
HA!! I just got that! 😅
Two drums and a cymbal fall off a cliff
Yeah, I can't believe Gav-is-gone.
Next the fungus killed gav's sister
Where can I watch all BBC earth content? I will pay for it!
Website perhaps? I don't know either, but this would be my first try✌️
National Geographic thought they could make me watch 2 15 second ads but bbc earth coming in clutch
Fungus/shrooms are special
I feel so sorry for these poor creatures :(
i wonder the reason why there is a fungus that does this to insects, perhaps of mother natures way trying to contain the population. when compared to the balance of herbivores and predators
its time to start a gofundme to save these poor insects
@@ArnoIdAloisSchwarzenegger Exactly😂Poor little critters never had a baby daddy
Nature is awesome
The strategy regarding cicads is magnificent!
What are cicads?
How do I watch this episode? I can’t find it on Netflix’s planet earth…I don’t see a “fungus” episode
A Bug's Life 2: The Last of Us
Cordyceps my favourite alien fungi.apparently they're really sought after fungi
Yes, over in Asia Cordyceps fungi have been eaten as a traditional medicine for centuries now. The curious thing is that preliminary modern research seems to suggest that eating Cordyceps DOES have some physiological benefits for humans (although I highly doubt they're some new miracle cure, seeing as how the same said humans have been eating them for centuries and it's not like they're immortal supermen now, are they? ;P) , although further studies are needed to quantify what exactly those might be.
what happens if i sniff the fungus ?
What will happen if any human comes in contact with the fungus?
Go eat it and tell us what happens 😅
@@flanagamer ya right!
Our digestive organs are too sour and the bacteria too agressive for this fungi. But if weakened enough it still could devour a human. Psilocybin🥳
This is freaking wild
I really love and appreciate nature in all it's glory and complexity... but damn...
Everyone saying this is beautiful untill they become a zombie
Sounds like a cool movie idea plot but with humans being host for the fungus to take over
This it's a very interesting biological adaptation to the environment.Can anyone explain the chemistry of the fungi creating Amphetamines?
my neighbours dog wants to know that too ;D
Don't need to produce them. Just spamming hormones and rearrange them via the digestive system, i think.
With-held wattage at space w vitamins can generate a descent 48hr spore whore!
That’s one way to stop the incessant and extremely loud and annoying noise that cicadas make in the tree right next to my apt.
WoW that’s so AMAZING and DISGUSTING at the same time
Firkay wariyat kisi virus say bhi ziyada khatarnak hai
Human- ZOMBIES
Ant and wasp- wait a second I'll fulfill your imagination
This Is Why In SpongeBob They Treat Fungus Like A Threat
god i wish that was me
Who want they brainussy ate
No way to fight back huh? Just get a flame thrower and light themushrooms on fire💀
'All thing bright and beautiful'
Great information.
i could think of worse ways to go out than tripping balls....
Whilst biting a tree
Who's here after watching Last of us
One single floodspore can destroy a species...
Guy inhales a lot of spores
Halo Announcer: Infection!
There are 17 and 13 year cicadas who by virtue of their prime number dormancy life cycle length never emerge en-masse during the same year. Get the god-botherers to explain that one.
Wat?
Incredible
I was walking along a stream one day and witnessed something that I just couldn't believe.
It was a cricket I believe right at the waters edge.
It was acting very strangely, - shifting from side to side.
There before my eyes a big and nasty looking worm began exiting the cricket's anus.
It looked like the worm was deliberately making for the water.
That worm was HUGE ! It continued to leave the insect's body - it just kept coming and coming out, -
I couldn't believe it !
I remember thinking -
"How is all that nasty worm coming out from inside that little bug" ?
I swear man, that REALLY freaked my ass-out big time.
Kinda reminds me of the way some bugs use other bugs for incubators and food for their own young.
You're paralyzed and then eggs are laid upon your chest. You are still very much alive and know exactly what is happening
when the eggs hatch and begin eating you !
You just lie there while they eat and eat until their eating finally means your death.
What goes through your mind as you lie there day in and day out slowly being eaten to death and you can't do a single thing about it ?
and you can't even commit suicide? thats the worst
You should be a Arthur and write a book. You have a good way of talking that grabs people’s interest. If you ever decide to….don’t forget I was the one that gave you the idea lol
What you saw was a horsehair worm.
Gelungenes Video Gruß Jürgen 🤠
Could hardly hear what he was saying for the background music
Great.
Imagine one day some mad scientist genetically modifies one of these fungi to be able to affect humans as a biological weapon but an accident happens where a variant makes contact with the public triggering the zombie apocalypse 😮
Hmm would this scientist be funded in China by an NIH Dr Fauci?
That's what is in chemtrails.
Oh yes and the unmentionable xav. Reverse.
Thus, Umbrella Corp. is born :)
@@blakedao4777 ...from Monsanto stemcells 😁
Resident Evil
Damn nature, you scary
One of Nature's own 'horror movies' !
Where is the plant eating poo? I saw that post earlier..they remove it the video?
Trippy
Is it harmless to humans?
To explain confused people:
1. The insects are not dead, but their brain is being influenced or controlled by the fungi so rather than being undead like zombies they’re alive only to do the fungus bidding
2. This fungi does not affect humans yet (we’re not sure)
We need one for mosquito.
and humans
@@rgygduysdgyuygsduysd helll nooo
@@rgygduysdgyuygsduysd you first
Ah, so you'd like to be bit by a mosquito carrying a parasitic zombie fungus?
YES
Gruesome but intriguing nonetheless!
Imagine this will some day jump over to bigger living animals and from there to humans.
We don’t have to imagine it - The Last of Us is based around the concept 😅
It's definitely possible, although we mammals would be a poor choice of host for such parasitic fungi due to our relatively slow birth and maturation rate. Insects are ideal hosts for such fungi because they are born, mature and die in such rapid cycles (plus they reproduce in immense numbers). If a Cordyceps fungus were to jump over to us, chances are the fungus would not be terribly successful because a) we're pretty intelligent creatures and we'd notice fairly rapidly if another human was behaving very oddly or had fungal growths on them, and b) if the fungus did take off, it would probably kill us all faster than we could reproduce and thus bring an end to the fungus once it has no other hosts around to feed off. The exception here might be if the fungus evolved into a form that wasn't lethal and could exist with us in a commensalistic (the fungus gains from us, but we are neither hurt nor benefit from the fungus) or even a mutualistic relationship (perhaps the fungus winds up producing nutrients or vitamins we otherwise can't produce for ourselves, or it strengthens our bodies or immune systems in some way).
@@Zaxares Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.
I was wondering if a cow eat an infected bug?...then a human eating that meat.
@@Lili4Yah It already happens. ;) In China and some other Asian nations, people eat cordyceps-infested caterpillars as a delicacy. Despite this happening for hundreds of years, not a single case of humans getting infected with the fungus has ever occurred. (Likely our metabolisms and genetics are just too different from insects for the fungus to make the jump.)
Well it means whatever the stories of zombies are about today goes on to be true by these little creatures
Jodie Joestar, my love 💖💖💖 (she's a jojo OC who is turned into a zombie unknowingly by a fungus lol)
DISGUSTANG BUT AT THE SAME TIME NATURE IS COOL
Great 😊
Like that fungus in Primeval series 3
Pakai CC Indonesia bos
How did this evolve? Honestly who came up with this? It has to alien 👽
Nobody came up with it, that's the beauty of evolution! I imagine that this method of parasitism and spore dispersal would have evolved over millions of years in parallel with these animals, so figuring out the "how" is going to be nigh on impossible. The "why" is far simpler of course. Because life!
@@TristanJCumpole exactly, the reason we see it is because it works and so it keeps happening. If it didn't work to make that particular species of fungi reproduce better then it just wouldn't happen again
@@oliverstaunton10 It's still amazing how that this endoparasitism is the propagation method for the entire genus. A large number of species over a wide geographical area, not just one odd example. The Cicada fungus is about as far removed from this line as humans are from pigeons!
@@TristanJCumpole I suppose it must be a very old adaptation?
This fungi sounds like The Flood from Halo
When you get bit by the insect will it infect you?
People using drugs or who have used drugs, may have been infected in similar ways...
Huh so zombies r nothing hurt for humans we ate uncountable this just like making chutney wow yum yum
This is like the corean serie "The kingdom" but there the plants could turn anybody into zombies
wait so this is just like parasect
Imagine it mutated to have the capability to infect humans successfully? Brrrrr..... I shiver just thinking about it.
Now we just need one of them for mosquitoes
Ants wasps moths and butterflies I’m gonna hire a fungus :) moths and butterflies as babies are 🐛
Monkey pox. We told you not to get the swab. We told you not to get the injekshun. The walking-dead they've been preparing us for in our daily dose of TV programming.
What's the bet the CIA has already studied and created a mind control substance from it 😂😂
fungi decompose what's dead or already dying..
That’s not true at all
That's scary dude
This looks yucky I want to throw up😖😥
मैं इंडिया से देख रहा हूं आपकी वीडियो बहुत अच्छा लग रहा है
There's a Fungus Among Us
commiting fungicide🧟
I dont like cordyceps. So sad that the poor cicadas stay underground for years just to come out and be eaten by this deadly mushroom. Beautiful butterflies become ugly leftovers. Cordyceps destroy the lives of insects. And it's sad seeing how helpless they are.😑😟
Attenborough narrates better. More concise
Oh no
@@jovanka---------8926 hello no stopid
@@jovanka---------8926 im only kid
@@jovanka---------8926 you’ve been reported to RUclips and will soon be removed
Thank you for sharing this video ! It’s something never knew ! It’s sad though that everything on this planet revolves on death dying and the useless struggle to survive ! Wednesday January 12th 2021 ❤️❤️❤️😔😔😔😢😢😢
Ah…this explains what’s happened at no. 10
Poor insects just don’t have a chance….
How do you evolve to be able to do that to an ant or if there is a god why would he do that?