Graduate students at the West Virginia University’s Kasson Laboratory discovered a Cicada Killer Wasp (Sphecius speciosus) infected with Ophiocordyceps (a type of fungi). Ophiocordyceps can also infect cicadas.
#Kassonlab grad students discovered these #Ophiocordyceps-infected #cicada killers today in the @wvuarboretum, There is a short invisible thread tying all our work together. #nosuchthingastoomanysideprojects #fungi #entomopathogens pic.twitter.com/mKsixkJ0T1
— Matt Kasson (@kasson_wvu) August 22, 2018