Step 1: tell the internet cicadas contain drugs.
Step 2: ?
Step 3: guy admitted to hospital with a can of Raid up his ass.
Step 4: Profit?
tiktok cicada drug #challenge
Cicada3302 space boogaloo
Just read the Wikipedia entry for that fungus. I saw cathinone was mentioned, but I did not see anything about psilocybin
Neither of these links state psilocybin is in the fungus.
Actually you’re right, but I found a better source: https://www.science.org/content/article/psychedelic-keeps-cicada-flying-even-after-fungus-has-destroyed-its-abdomen
From your second link:
Here we report the discovery, through global and targeted metabolomics supported by metagenomics and proteomics, of the plant amphetamine, cathinone, in Massospora cicadina-infected periodical cicadas, and the mushroom tryptamine, psilocybin, in M. platypediae- and M. levispora-infected annual cicadas.
It appears that the two chemicals come from two different fungi. Or I could be misinterpreting that.
Edit: PS. I appreciate all of the content that you post. I just thought this was an interesting subject.
No worries. I am half distracted tonight :)
There we are. Thank you for your diligence!
This is how I wanna go
Aldous Huxley, renowned writer of Brave New World was an enjoyer of psychedelics. He wrote the book ‘the doors of perception’ about his psychonautic experiences, inadvertently christening a popular band, the Doors.
On his deathbed he had his wife inject him with a large dose of LSD. Leaving this world tripping. His death went unnoticed by much of the world as he died the same day JFK was assassinated.
that’s amazing. I want to go out like that too
Party 'til you drop apparently according to the non-highlighted sentence.
You will eat the bugs
Mother Nature’s equivelant of drenching vegetables in honey. “C’mon humanity, they are sustainable! For the love of Gaia, eat them…”
Drug bug!
Not the worst way to go if you have to be slowly eaten alive by a fungus.
Not too long ago, I saw a (cruel) recipe for cicadas here on lemmy!