Kasson and his team began studying zombie cicadas in 2016 ... according to an article in Smithsonian in 2021. Can a person get high by eating a cicada infected by the fungus?

If you’re traveling to any of the Midwestern or Southeastern states this spring, you might encounter zombies — zombie cicadas, that is. Trillions of cicadas will emerge in May in a double ...

Getty According to the University of Connecticut, the illness "turns infected cicadas into 'zombie insects' that disperse more fungus by causing males infected with Stage I to produce wing-flick ...