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The Giant Forest Ant (Camponotus gigas) usually forages on the forest floor and is seldom seen climbing trees. This specimen, the victim of a parasitic fungus, was “compelled” to climb up a mango sapling of about two feet tall (roughly 60cm). It died with its mandibles or jaws clamped onto the edge of a leaf and the stomata, or fruiting bodies, of the fungus, a species of Cordyceps, sprouting through the joints of its exoskeleton.


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A giant succumbs
to an insidious invader

PICTURE: GIANT FOREST ANT

Giant Forest Ant killed by a parasitic fungus
Giant Forest Ant killed by a parasitic fungus. © Chin Fah Shin

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