The fungus Massospora cicadina infects periodical cicadas when they emerge every 13 or 17 years.
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Angie Macias's “Flying Salt Shakers of Death” article, from the Cornell Mushroom Blog: blog.mycology.cornell.edu/201...
Massosspora cicadina as a cicaca STD, from University of Maryland College Park Professor Michael Raupp: bugoftheweek.com/blog/2013/6/1...
An excellent review of all thing periodical cicada, fungal details on page 279: hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/pro...
For more on the fungus and its spores, see this study from Dr. Kimberly Smith’s lab (sorry, it’s behind a paywall) www.sciencedirect.com/science/..., and this one (also behind a paywall) by JoAnn White and Monte Lloyd: ee.oxfordjournals.org/content/...
And here are some details about how these insects die: cavern.uark.edu/~fstephen/new/...
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A Magicicada chorus containing M. septendecim, M. cassini, and M. septendecula.
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