New thread on Twitter talks about zombies in nature

Twitter user under the nickname @EPelmesha decided to tell about the unusual organisms that use other animals for their own purposes. It turns out that nature invented so sophisticated ways of manipulating that creators horror about zombie not even dreamed of!

1. Mushroom-parasite

~ Decided to trade on the zombies in nature: D
Yes, in the nature of a lot of parasites and animals that use other creatures for their purposes.
So:
# 1 The fungus Cordyceps (Cordyceps)
Victim: insects
Experience: 48 million years old
The fungus shoots spores to the insect when it is near and disputes penetrate into the body pic.twitter.com/Rw6WIj5AFh

- ❄️🇺🇦Evgesha_Wolfesha🇺🇦❄️ (@EPelmesha) November 30, 2019

~ Insects (eg ants) eventually becomes lazy and weak. He stops working and goes out of the nest. Mushroom runs his victim's body in order to reach the desired height, where it will be comfortable.
Insect rises to 20-25 cm from the ground just as well stay and live there.

- ❄️🇺🇦Evgesha_Wolfesha🇺🇦❄️ (@EPelmesha) November 30, 2019

~ If the fungus are satisfied, then he orders an ant bite and place the sheet tabs. Thus it is firmly clinging sheet / limb / bark.
Then the fungus begins to actively grow out of the victim's body. Highlight: the victim remains alive until the last moment. pic.twitter.com/zIUsSWUZef

- ❄️🇺🇦Evgesha_Wolfesha🇺🇦❄️ (@EPelmesha) November 30, 2019

~ Because the fungus is very dangerous and can destroy an entire colony of ants carry all suspicious individuals away from their home.
Here is the final stage of the fungus lives in the body of the victim. Now he shoots disputes when there are other insects (ants, spiders, butterflies, etc.) pic.twitter.com/FXSP4b23Iv

- ❄️🇺🇦Evgesha_Wolfesha🇺🇦❄️ (@EPelmesha) November 30, 2019

2. cat lover

~ # 2 Toxoplasma gondii gondii
(Toxoplasma gondii)
Celled simplest organism that lives inside cats.
To get to the cat, Toxoplasma gondii gets into mice and makes them feel sexually attracted to cats.
Rats were beginning to cause the smell of urine of cats and they go to him.

- ❄️🇺🇦Evgesha_Wolfesha🇺🇦❄️ (@EPelmesha) November 30, 2019

~ Infected mice first watch cats, and then try to rape them. Sometimes the whole colony of mice infected and they all just snapped at the cat. The purpose of the parasite - to get to the cat at all costs, be it sex or suicide as a dinner for a cat.

- ❄️🇺🇦Evgesha_Wolfesha🇺🇦❄️ (@EPelmesha) November 30, 2019

3. modifier snails

~ # 3 Leykohloridy paradoxical (Leucochloridium paradoxum)
This parasite lives in the intestines of birds, but again, there need to get... and then come to the aid of a snail! Yes, the usual snail!
When the parasite invades the snail, it grows and it begins to change the appearance of the victim. pic.twitter.com/g40MEjvo8L

- ❄️🇺🇦Evgesha_Wolfesha🇺🇦❄️ (@EPelmesha) November 30, 2019

~ Eyes snails become very visible and bright, thus attracting birds. But that's not all, the task of the parasite is not only to make the snail more noticeable for the birds, but also to get somehow to them. The infected snail begins to creep in the middle of the day right on the plant up. pic.twitter.com/cd1YBrF3l1

- ❄️🇺🇦Evgesha_Wolfesha🇺🇦❄️ (@EPelmesha) November 30, 2019

~ When the snail is at the top, it becomes easy prey for the birds, and they, in his turn, tear her eyes but it is not the end. Snails regenerate their body parts, so that it once again stepping up his eyes, and the parasite modifies them again and takes control over the brain snail.

- ❄️🇺🇦Evgesha_Wolfesha🇺🇦❄️ (@EPelmesha) November 30, 2019

4. crab parasite

~ # 4 Sacculina (Sacculina carcini)
Larvae Sacculina - a planktonic organisms that live in the ocean and clinging to the crab. A couple of days of life on the crab, he grows a spike and drill claw, thus falling into a crab.
The parasite destroys the sexual organs crab, rendering it infertile pic.twitter.com/URsTMWCxqf

- ❄️🇺🇦Evgesha_Wolfesha🇺🇦❄️ (@EPelmesha) November 30, 2019

~ Fun fact: crab becomes fruitless, and his gender changed to female and the male begins to behave like a female. At the tail begins to appear crab crab bag and begins to take care of it. Then the crab larvae of the parasite gives birth and are at large. pic.twitter.com/g4wZsqvxik

- ❄️🇺🇦Evgesha_Wolfesha🇺🇦❄️ (@EPelmesha) November 30, 2019

~ It's funny, but infected transgender crabs live longer than their healthy counterparts and cisgender.

- ❄️🇺🇦Evgesha_Wolfesha🇺🇦❄️ (@EPelmesha) November 30, 2019

5. Osa-rider

~ # 5 Wasp Rider
This kind of insect larvae use as an incubator.
Wasp paralyzes the victim's body and lays about 80 eggs.
The caterpillar will soon wakes up and starts to eat 1.5 times. Some time later, the larvae start to get out of a caterpillar. pic.twitter.com/5evgTlQn3D

- ❄️🇺🇦Evgesha_Wolfesha🇺🇦❄️ (@EPelmesha) November 30, 2019

~ When the larvae crawled, the caterpillar begins to actively weave a cocoon around the wasp larvae to protect them, and when the deed is done, the caterpillar takes an aggressive posture with them to protect them from danger and deter enemies. pic.twitter.com/mSUi4XintV

- ❄️🇺🇦Evgesha_Wolfesha🇺🇦❄️ (@EPelmesha) November 30, 2019

~ In fact, not all the larvae emerge, because why else would almost dead caterpillars take care of wasp offspring?
Yes, that's right, inside the caterpillar 2 remains undeveloped eggs that continue to control the victim's body.

- ❄️🇺🇦Evgesha_Wolfesha🇺🇦❄️ (@EPelmesha) November 30, 2019

6. Emerald wasp

~ # 6 Emerald wasp (Ampulex compressa)
This type of wasps preys on cockroaches.
Wasp sting strike and then, when a cockroach is paralyzed, introduces sting 2 times, but in the brain. The first blow only paralyzes the body, and the second - subordinates. pic.twitter.com/2WburVvKUV

- ❄️🇺🇦Evgesha_Wolfesha🇺🇦❄️ (@EPelmesha) November 30, 2019

~ When a cockroach becomes a fully manageable, wasp grabs his mustache and leads him into her nest, which can be very far from the scene of the attack on the victim. Cockroach wasp completely obeys and performs all of its requirements and the team followed her. pic.twitter.com/CRD2ErBIcI

- ❄️🇺🇦Evgesha_Wolfesha🇺🇦❄️ (@EPelmesha) November 30, 2019

~ Then the wasp lays just one egg in the abdomen and leaves, pulling pebbles cockroach, which is located deep underground. So the cockroach will live more exactly 7 days. pic.twitter.com/U7pmPad5Je

- ❄️🇺🇦Evgesha_Wolfesha🇺🇦❄️ (@EPelmesha) November 30, 2019

~ After that larva grows, it eats his master and he eventually dies: D
During his life, one wasp can do it all with 30 cockroaches: 0 pic.twitter.com/DQWc1thHDP

- ❄️🇺🇦Evgesha_Wolfesha🇺🇦❄️ (@EPelmesha) November 30, 2019