• Fwow13@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Most likely a fungus. There are fungi that trigger an insect to climb to a high(er) point before death, that way the spores have the potential to travel farther and infect more insects.

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        1 year ago

        There other pathogens that will do things like this too, the insect world can be a horror show. 🫣

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          1 year ago

          The flies are really bad this year so I say bring the horrors on.

          Though they are feeding the local finch population quite well.