Blog Stories Things that go bump in the night

Things that go bump in the night

By Mel Dorman, April 30, 2021

Sometimes you find the fixer home of your dreams. Complete with creepy, but cool new downstairs neighbors. This is a cellar spider that has been turned into a “zombie spider”. Yep you heard me right “zombie spider”. It’s been infected with a fungus that prays on these already creepy invertebrates. The fungi is call entomopathogenic . One of the unique feature of this fungi cis these spiders are actually still alive. Well one foot out of the grave and one in it . The fungi leave enough life-force in the spider for them to  continue to stagger around in the hope of infecting of spiders with the fungi.

 

 

 

Mel Dorman

Broker | OR & WA

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Ten years ago, Melissa was living in a slum in Kolkata, India, helping over 200 women escape sex trafficking by providing alternative work at a social business...
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