www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ySwuQhruBo

Poison to prevent it from escaping, led off into a nest, and finally eaten by ravenous young.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2Jw5ib-s_I

A Fungus takes controls of a fruit fly, kills it, and uses it as a spore launcher.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB6O7jS_VBM

Hairworms take over crickets, by way of infecting a mayfly that gets eaten. Apparently they survive the ordeal.

r/TIHI

I'm gonna go huddle in a corner now.

I mean I already knew about that second one, but that changes nothing.

Wdym, don't you think squicky icky bugs being mind-controlled is hot as hell? /s

real talk though, I wish mainstream entertainment would take more cues from shit like this and implement it on human(oid) victims

I mean, if anyone here watches Overly Sarcastic Productions's Trope Talk series, particularly the mind control episode, we've had some really good stuff like this. Especially what Red dubs as the "virus" archetype, that's basically always the fall of Otto Octavius. Always. And especially in the PS4 game, it's beautiful to witness.

Cuttlefish apparently hypnotize their prey Kaa style

youtu.be/l1T4ZgkCuiM

inb4 cuttlefish get researched in the MCI

Natural world includes humans?

If not pheromones in the insect world i think that they count, they are essentially signals that the individual must obey withouth any hesitation

Cordyceps fungus, AKA the zombie parasite.

youtu.be/vijGdWn5-h8?t=36

Fun fact: This is what the zombies in The Last Of Us are based on.

I was waiting for the Cordyceps...

MCI?

Ah, assumed more people would get it. <<hypnohub.net/pool/show/3320|It's this.>>