Scientists are on a mission to save parasites—not to kill them. Climate change is already doing an increasingly good job at the latter, and that could be a big problem for the world. 📽️ emilyvdriscoll
whose behavior the show fictionalized, into a household name. Millions now know it simply as “cordyceps.”)parasite-borne scourges
The way parasitism works also doesn’t tend to engender sympathy. The “lifestyle” is all about living at the expense of another. Parasites are evolutionary cheaters. Can’t make it on your own? Just use another body as a shelter and food. “Parasites are puppet masters—they’re this kind of silent force in ecosystems,” says Colin Carlson, a global change biologist at Georgetown University, who has worked to quantify global parasite biodiversity. “They might be the majority of biomass in some ecosystems. They might make up the majority of food web links. And we never think about them.”
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