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Wasp Larvae Feed on Zombie Roaches

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the make-them-200-feet-tall-and-you-have-a-movie dept.

TheUploader writes "The story leaves nothing to embellish: The wasp, Ampulex compressa, has evolved to inject a toxin into a specific part of a roach's brain, turning it into a zombie. The wasp then leads the zombie roach into the wasp's nest, lays eggs inside it, and waits for its young to hatch, who will then go on to do the same to more roaches."

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  1. Re:More proof.. by tibike77 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    First of all, the link is /. already, so I won't be able to comment on the contents, yet.
    However, let me just tell you that "Intelligent Design" can not be logically PROVED, just as much as it cannot be disproved... it's just a theory with a "limbo-like" life.
    I guess it's just flamebait, isn't it ? And I took it :P

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  2. yes... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    and then there's all those Muslims buring flags in the streets and calling for heads over a cartoon, the American Family Association's boycott of NBC over Britney Spears, and the Joint Chiefs upset over a Tom Toles cartoon which they obviouly just don't get, although the PR guy fopr the Disabled Vets did.

    More proof of... what was that again?

    1. Re:yes... by freedom_india · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      I like to kick the asshole who modded you as Flamebait !

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  3. Re:Evolved by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Anybody offering any other reasonable explanation besides that which nature provides? No? Ok then. STFU.

  4. Bill Tried This On Monica! by sciop101 · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Democrats knew about this for decades.

    Can Hillary do it right?

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  5. Re:Awsome! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Goto hell you little bitch troll.

  6. Christ A Zombie? by cannuck · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Finally "we" understand it all. Christ was never crucified - instead he was turned into a zombie - and didn't need to be resurrected.

    Equal satirical treatment for Christains and Muslims alike ;)

  7. Re:More proof.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Saying the name of god protects you from parasitism? Do you have any more of those brilliant medical insights?

  8. monkey scut by halo112358 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Hello, this has been floating around for at least two days - why is it worthy of front page news here and now?