In the hit HBO series The Last of Us, the world is... ...nfected flour and has mutated to turn humans into zombies . The genus Cordyceps really does turn its host in... ...he genus Cordyceps really does turn its host into zombies , but only attacks insects. Does that means we are...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/03/08/The-Real-Threat-of-a-Fungus-in-Our-Flour/We've read plenty of horror stories from nature ab... ...rom nature about animal parasites infecting other animals and causing them to behave in ways that benefit t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/08/05/Fungus-Controls-Behavior-of-Zombie-Cicadas/The emerald jewel wasp is a parasite that stings a... ...arasite that stings a cockroach to turn it into a zombie . It chews off half the roach's antennae, then lea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/04/A-Cockroachs-Defense-Against-Zombification/The life cycle of the conopid fly reads like a hor... ...on the ground and digs itself into the soil. In a zombie -like motion, it uses its little bee legs to tunne...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/10/25/The-Parasite-That-Forces-Bees-to-Dig-Their-Own-Graves/There are many species of parasitic wasps, many of which we've posted. But even parasites can become the victim of parasites, in this case a plant that feeds on wasps that feed on plants. The oak leaf gall wasp invades o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/09/01/Parasites-for-Parasites/In case you need a little more nightmare fuel, scientists have been studying a fish eyeball parasite. Diplostomum pseudospathaceum infects a fish's eye as a larva. While the larva grows, it causes the fish to swim slower...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/05/04/Parasite-Living-Inside-Fish-Eyeball-Controls-Its-Behavior/Scientific research can read like a horror story w... ...s exerting mind control to turn the victim into a zombie slave. That’s a standard horror film plot r... ...tings a cockroach, transforming it into a passive zombie . The wasp can then walk its drugged victim into a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/10/15/Real-Zombies-Mind-Controlling-Parasites-of-Nature/Poor bees. First, there's the ho... ...s this: a parasite that turns bees into zombies . Honeybees (Apis mellifera) in... ...outh Dakota have been observed acting zombielike , wandering away from their hives at n...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/07/24/zombie-bees/Photo: David Hughes/Penn State U... ...a species of fungus that turns ants into zombies . Aptly called the zombie -ant fungus (Ophiocordyceps unilateralis s.l.), th... ...as discovered that some ant colonies survive this zombie infestation ... with a little...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/05/03/fungus-attacks-zombie-ant-fungus/Parasites are raising an army of zombie wasp queens to do their bidding, and it's a good...
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