Unlike your average noisy chirping cicadas, these "zombie cicadas" are infected with a fungus called Massospora that basically eats away at their mind and body.

It explains that when a male cicada becomes infected with this fungus, it will start mimicking the wing-flicking behavior that is typically exclusive to female cicadas.

Other male cicadas will be lured in, thinking it’s a female cicada wanting to mate.

Once the interested cicada flocks to the infected cicada to mate, the infected cicada will attempt to transfer the fungus over to its peer.