Newly discovered wasp turns social spiders into zombies

Tuesday, November 27, 2018 - 10:50 in Earth & Climate

It sounds like the plot of the world’s tiniest horror movie: deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon, a newly discovered species of wasp transforms a “social” spider into a zombie-like drone that abandons its colony to do the wasp’s bidding. That’s the gruesome, real-life discovery by University of British Columbia researchers, who detail the first example […]

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