ScienceTake: A Wasp That Turns a Spider Into the Walking Dead

Sunday, September 13, 2015 - 22:00 in Biology & Nature

First an ichneumonid wasp lays an egg on an orb weaver spider. The larva essentially turns the spider into a zombie, uses its web and eats the spider.

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