Scientists Discover the Undead in the Tropics

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Scientists have discovered the mechanism by which cockroaches are turned into zombies. That’s right, there are zombie cockroaches. I’m sorry, but if you’re not frightened by the thought of billions of undead cockroaches swarming the globe, you’ve got issues.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...-zombie_2.html

Anyone seen Starship Troopers recently?

[mellow_hendrix]

Billions of em and not 1 good picture?

[TheBiodegradableMan]

I'm surprised I've read a few articles similar to that one lately. It really isn't that new of a concept. It's even mentioned in Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, published back in 1962. She mentioned it as a solution to Japanese beetle problems.

"The most effective and widely distributed is a parasitic wasp from Korea and China, Tiphia vernalis. The female Tiphia, finding a beetle grub in the soil, injects a paralyzing fluid and attaches a single egg to the undersurface of the grub. The young wasp, hatching as a larva, feeds on the paralyzed grub and destroys it."

Although some of the articles say the cockroach actually follows the wasp, others just say it is paralyzed.

Pretty scary stuff