Still Waters Posted November 29, 2018 #1 Share Posted November 29, 2018 It sounds like the plot of the world's tiniest horror movie: deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon, a newly discovered species of wasp transforms a "social" spider into a zombie-like drone that abandons its colony to do the wasp's bidding. That's the gruesome, real-life discovery by University of British Columbia researchers, who detail the first example of a manipulative relationship between a new Zatypota species wasp and a social Anelosimus eximius spider in a study published recently in Ecological Entomology. "Wasps manipulating the behaviour of spiders has been observed before, but not at a level as complex as this," said Philippe Fernandez-Fournier, lead author of the study and former master's student at UBC's department of zoology. "Not only is this wasp targeting a social species of spider but it's making it leave its colony, which it rarely does." https://phys.org/news/2018-11-newly-wasp-social-spiders-zombies.html 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHaYap Posted November 29, 2018 #2 Share Posted November 29, 2018 Seems like everything is having a go at making zombies out of the poor bees ... bees makes great zombie slaves ... Quote ~ Zombie Flies May Be Killing Honeybees - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/body-snatching-flies/ Mar 1, 2012 - “The next time I looked at the vial, there were all these fly pupae surrounding the bees,” he said. A fly (Apocephalus borealis) had inserted its ... ~ Parasitic Flies Could Be Causing Colony Collapse Disorder for Bees ... science.time.com/.../zom-bees-how-parasitic-flies-are-turning-honeybees-into-the-buz... Jan 4, 2012 - They're alive but not alive—bee zombies. And the parasites that cause the transformation may provide a clue to the mysterious colony collapse ... ~ 'Zombie bees' found in Washington state for first time - Digital Journal www.digitaljournal.com/article/333505 Sep 25, 2012 - It has been confirmed an amateur beekeeper in Washington state has found "zombie bees" on his property. This is the first time "zombees" ... ~ ~ I wonder sometimes if there is some germ that has already caused a parasitic infection and has already made zombies out the entire Human Population ~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OverSword Posted November 29, 2018 #3 Share Posted November 29, 2018 Wasps are terrifying. I watched a documentary about one wasp that uses ants to raise it's larvae and give them preferential treatment over the ants own. The relationship was so intricate and unlikely that I nearly became a creationist. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nzo Posted November 30, 2018 #4 Share Posted November 30, 2018 18 hours ago, third_eye said: Seems like everything is having a go at making zombies out of the poor bees ... bees makes great zombie slaves ... ~ I wonder sometimes if there is some germ that has already caused a parasitic infection and has already made zombies out the entire Human Population ~ Yes, Its called money. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quillius Posted November 30, 2018 #5 Share Posted November 30, 2018 mind blowing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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