The mushroom is coming out of the ant's rectum, and vegetative part of the fungus is emerging from its abdomen and neck. (image courtesy George Poinar Jr.) ...
He started capturing images purely to aid scientific identification ... More recently, the object of his fascination has turned to parasites. It’s the stuff of horror films: Smith recalls ...
The paper, by C.J. Carlson at University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif., and colleagues was titled, "Parasite biodiversity faces extinction and redistribution in a changing climate ...