We've read plenty of horror stories from nature ab... ...plenty of horror stories from nature about animal parasites infecting other animals and causing them to behav...
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... ...sitic 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 fe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/09/01/Parasites-for-Parasites/In case you need a little more nightmare fuel, sci... ...place in three different types of animal. First, parasites mate in a bird’s digestive tract, shedding... ...r, ready to track down their next host, fish. The parasites then penetrate the skin of fish, and travel to th... ...t fish eyes that contai...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/05/04/Parasite-Living-Inside-Fish-Eyeball-Controls-Its-Behavior/Scientific research can read like a horror story w... ...can read like a horror story when the subject is parasites . There are numerous parasite species that not onl... ...s exerting mind control to turn the victim into a zombie slave. That’s a standard horror film plot r... ...tings a cockroach, trans...
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... ...o their bidding, and it's a good thing that these parasites aren't more ambitious, because they'd probably b... ...n their way to taking over the world by now! The *strong cla...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/25/attack-of-the-zombie-wasp-queens/If you want to catch Mother Nature at her best (an... ...e or darned scary), then look no further than how parasites hijack the biology of their hosts. Take, for inst... ...nding itself a mate.Gruesome, eh? Here are 9 more zombie parasites over at TopTenz: Link
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/09/10/10-parasites-that-turn-their-hosts-into-zombies/
