A fungus that uses chemicals to trick male flies into mating with infected dead females
— Read on phys.org/news/2021-11-fungus-chemicals-male-flies-infected.html

Blogger’s Note:

It is a very well known fact that all living species in nature are connected amongst themselves ,weather they live in colonies or not, from the micro to the macro , we are equipped with ways, complex or simple, to send and receive signals, in order to optimize our survival and keep a functional balance. Those ways of signaling the environment, sometimes are just “SOS like”, or identifiable chemical byproducts specific of a particular specie, or alerting signals to neighboring trees, like the ‘after bitten electrical signals from ‘leaf to roots’ or the rest of the tree, triggering endogenous natural pesticides liberation. We could say that in terms of survival, “Earth The Host Rock” is the container, “Earth The Home Habitat” is the dependent auto regulated nutrients provider responder, and “Earth The Living Globe ” the all as one interdependent, communicated, interconnected living system.

Then, perhaps the simplicity of the ” Earth Triad” concept, could facilitate teaching, improve effectiveness when communicating with children, adolescents and adults, about the seriousness of – “Earth The Habitat illness ” and how humans as part of a ‘self conscious’ species, are connected as a “specie of interest” implicated as contributing suspect to “Earth The Home Habitat” the serious illness that is critically threatening the existence of all living things as “Earth The Living Globe”.

So, this fungus metabolic byproduct perhaps connected as part of the endogenous fly nutrients as a provider, could contains precursors that after used by the fungus, are transformed and detritus that are naturally attracting to males flies, are left behind. Although is my intuitive interpretation, if true, it would be another example of how nature keeps the delicate existing balance between species. True or not, the strong connection is there as a proven fact.