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Fungus creates zombie beetles that crave flowers before death
The infected beetles seek out flowers, stick their heads in and bite for their life. Then, hours after dying, their wings mysteriously spring into action
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I really enjoy reading stuff like this. I've never seen beetles clamped to goldenrod flowers. I'll keep a look out though.
It's a bit like cordyceps - the Tibetan caterpillar fungus.