Collecting sex-crazed zombie cicadas on speed: Scientists track a bug-controlling fungus

A nasty fungus can take control over a cicada, producing amphetamine in the critter and making them hypersexual, thereby fueling the parasite’s spread as a sexually transmitted disease. A nasty fungus can take control over a cicada, producing amphetamine in the critter and making them hypersexual, thereby fueling the parasite’s spread as a sexually transmitted disease.  NBC News Science