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• Footage courtesy: Bio-Rad Laboratories (@BioRadLaboratoriesCorp) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejf6FwIibkE
• Footage courtesy: BBC Studios (@BBCStudios) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuKjBIBBAL8
• Footage courtesy: Deep Look (@KQEDDeepLook) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EBipTLgPUw

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00:00Fungus-eating syrid flies face total biological hijacking by microscopic roundworms right now.
00:06How do tiny nematodes sneak inside adult insect bodies and entirely rewrite their normal daily
00:14survival drives? Common sense says the host simply dies immediately, but the parasite
00:20actually keeps the insect alive. Haurjula oryidaeorae chemically castrates the host,
00:27converting its body into a walking delivery truck for thousands of larvae. These doomed
00:33carriers scatter deadly passengers across damp soil, where fungus-eating syrid flies face
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