These mushrooms don't make you high nor do they make you larger to save princess'

Ants are a lot like people except a lot smaller and want to get in your pants for different reasons. The leaf cutter ant for example can act a lot like a traditional farmer cultivating fungus and harvesting and the whole bunch. Sounds nice and friendly doesn’t it? Well not all Fungi are happy to live in a mutualy beneficial relationship.

There are some cases where stuff gets downright spooky. Not all fungus’s are so mutually beneficial or even go that great on pizza. Some fungi known as Cordyceps can even resort to mind control. Where the offending fungus infects the insect such as the bullet ant and causes it to exhibit strange behaviour leading it to be dumped deep into the jungle by other ants. It’s infected brain leads the ant upwards and latches on hard with its mandibles. It then sprouts a shoot directly from its head where it then attempts to infect others.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCOQ0VU24xw

Maybe there’s a spore in you right now making you read this blog…