... are environmentguardian.co.uk's James Randerson and science correspondent Ian Sample. We discuss zombie ants, the heartbreaking tale of starvation at a seed ...
... al. entitled Hidden Diversity Behind the Zombie-Ant Fungus Ophiocordyceps unilateralis: Four ... researchers don't know is how parasites, such as these zombie-inducing fungi, cope with fragmentation. Here ...
... Ecology on 9 May 2011. "The behavior of these infected zombie ants essentially causes their bodies to become ... rarely left the trail, zombie ants walked in a random manner, unable to find their way ...
... where biology is stranger than fiction, the parasite of the zombie-ant fungus is itself a fungus -- a hyperparasitic ... fungi, which may result in significantly limiting the spread of the zombie-ant fungus" Hughes said. The scientists report ...
... that perfect spot yourself. Solution: hijack an ant’s body to do the work for you--and then ...
... about this parasite's ghastly ability to turn unsuspecting ants into zombies. But Hughes and his colleagues chronicle the amazingly precise control the fungus has over its victim. At a field ...
... taking control of their hosts to turn them into zombies. The discovery has been made by a research team led ... of one well documented form of zombie-parasite, a fungus which infects ants and then manipulates their behaviour ...
To scientists, the leaf tells the story of a 48-million-year-old ant infected by a parasite.
... have discovered what they say are four different species of "zombie fungus" in the Atlantic Brazilian rainforest that take over the brains of their host ants, forcing ...
Flies that inject eggs into fire ants are being used to fight the invasive ants. The larvae grow inside the ants' heads, appear to control the ants' behavior, then ''hatch'' from the now empty skulls ...
Final death grip for the living dead of the insect world comes at midday
Final death grip for the living dead of the insect world comes at midday
... discovered fungus species that infect ants, turning them into zombies that affix themselves to leaves ... Brazil and probably represent a small fraction of zombie-ant fungus diversity.Quentin Wheeler ...
... change the behavior of their host, notable examples being the zombie ants and cat-loving rodents. Another example of such a ‘mind-controlling’ virus is the baculovirus, controlling ...
The 2012 Weird Science Awards pay tribute to the strangest and silliest scientific happenings of the past year, from A (for Aflockalypse) to Z (for zombie ants).
