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    • Vegetable caterpillar fungus, growing up through forest floor.
    Rights: Clive Shirley Published 14 April 2009 Size: 250 KB Referencing Hub media

    After infecting the caterpillar and creating the mummy, the fungus grows up through the forest floor. The top of the fungus then develops fruiting bodies that spread spores for reproduction.

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      Vegetable caterpillar

      Imagine a creature that turns moths into mummies by trapping them in an underground grave before emerging out of their neck to begin the cycle again. Not only does this creature exist, it’s part ...

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