*That's gonna make an ideal standard investigatory zombie-fungus, if you're into the whole zombie-fungus thing, and gee, what entomologist and fungus fan isn't.
And it's just as yucky as other zombie fungi, if not more so
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They discovered that on the first day, there was little to note except for the start of an immune response. Just 24 hours later, though, the fungus had made its way to the brain and hemolymph. By 72 hours, the fungus had made its way into nearly every part of the body, eating fat and other parts as it went. It was also starting to make its way into the nervous system. At 96 hours, the fungus had taken over, causing the fly to ascend to a nearby high point. Once that high point was reached, the fungus produced a glue-like substance that was used to anchor the fly to its perch. That was followed by raising the fly's wings, presumably to get them out of the way. Then, the abdomen swelled as fungal conidiophores sprouted, which a little time later burst, ejecting spores into the air at a high rate of speed....
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-12-fungus-fruit-flies-hosting-spores.html#jCp
