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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. Zombies? Roaches? by schestowitz · · Score: 0, Troll

    Am I the only one who concluded from the title that Windows users are roaches? Mirror here, by the way. The site has been hammered. http://www.networkmirror.com/7uNI66ZP2A2tZOHx/loom .corante.com/archives/2006/02/02/the_wisdom_of_par asites.php.html

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  2. Re:Awsome! by MooUK · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes, as you've realised, someone is several years ahead of you and has been having a lot of fun laughing at the world all this time...

    And unfortunately, it wasn't me.

  3. Re:No need to rent Kingdom of the Spiders! by rizzo420 · · Score: 0, Troll

    slander away... israel is full of as many terrorists as palestine and iraq... they just happen to be our allies so we won't admit to it. and because jews hold so many high places in our country (like all of hollywood), we won't go against what israel is doing either... we'll just watch them continue in their terrorist ways and fund it too.

    i'm not anti-semitic or anything, in fact, i have jewish relatives. i just disagree with israeli politics. i'll even sign my name to this one...

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