Fungus Makes Snakes Look Like Mummies. It Just Turned Up in California (livescience.com)

A lot of people don't appreciate that snakes pose about as much good to the environment as bee's do.

Some fungi are so insidious when you start looking into how they function. They need to land, spore and infect but keep the host plant or animal alive in order to keep feeding itself, so they very slowly kill the host before they spore and move on.