“He devours the body of the host”: zombie spiders, infected with a fungus, found to the United States

A parasitic fungus that attacks spiders to take control of their bodies would sow the fear of Europe in America after several of them were found, covered with a white foam, in several inhabitants. Consequently,

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“I am not afraid of any spider. For example, But these give me the scare. Meanwhile, [Depuis janvier] I still do not open my windows for fear that they will not introduce themselves. Similarly, “the” Wall Street Journal “told the former British widowed collector Anna Baddams, 54, after having found hundreds of these infected spiders in his shed. Nevertheless,

It was in 2021 in Northern Ireland that the fungus Gibellula attenboroughii. Moreover, , appointed in honor of the British naturalist David Attentbourough, had been discovered for the very first time “he devours body host”: zombie on an infected spider, during the shooting of a series of the BBC.

This parasitic fungus attacks the brains of spiders and takes control of their bodies, in order to force them to move to an open area to allow him to release his spores, explained João Araújo, mycologist at the Museum of Natural History in Denmark, in the American media.

“He devours the body of the host from the inside to the outside. Additionally, ” said the author of a study on the fungus published in the Fungal Systematics and Evolution last June. “he devours body host”: zombie

Except that the result is worthy of a real horror film. while these zombie spiders, covered with a white foam, become hyperactive before dying after about three weeks, said the mycologist.

And in recent years, the finds of its spiders have multiplied not only in the United Kingdom and Russia, but also, in Minneapolis in the United States, New Zealand and Ontario, according to the “Wall Street Journal”.

This is reminiscent of the American postapocalyptic series “The Last “he devours body host”: zombie of Us”, in which a fungus lifts to infect humans.

But fortunately. Gibellula attenboroughii is not about to cause an apocalypse, when it would take “millions of years of genetic changes” to “infect humans,” reassured João Araújo to the American media.

Despite this, the images of these critters give cold in the back.

“Maybe don’t tell children [si vous en voyez]A landscaped the British landscaper. Gareth Jenkins, who terrified an owner with whom he worked by informing him of his find, after finding the spiders with frozen appearance.