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It's a rainy early spring afternoon, and I'm here at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx.

Everyone else is here to see the orchids.

I am here to see some nasty, insect, zombifying fungi.

I'm meeting Zhao Arujo, a psychologist who works here at the garden.

Oh, they're in the box here.

Oh, cool. Oh, I's a box here. Oh, cool.

Oh, I've only seen them in pictures.

Oh, there's just so many things coming out of it.

Yeah, which ones are legs?

Yeah, those are legs, and this one from the back of the head is the fruiting body.

Is that little yellow spot, those are its eyes?

Yeah, the eyes, yeah.

Okay, right. Oh, yeah. Okay.

Oh, man.

Yeah.

Sounds like a sad fate, but the circle of life, I suppose.

Joie was a leading expert on a genus of fungus called Ophio-Corticeps, the killer of the insects pinned to the board in front of me in his office.

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