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Matt Kasson, Associate Professor of Mycology and Plant Pathology, West Virginia University

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A zombie cicada fungus, _Massospora cicadina_, has consumed the rear end of this periodical cicada, replacing it with a 'plug' of chalky spores. Matt Kasson, CC BY-ND

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