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Rise of the Zombie Bugs review: Grisly new book reveals what zombie insects can teach us

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Rise of the Zombie Bugs review: Grisly new book reveals what zombie insects can teach us

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A Succinea snail that has been infected by a zombifying parasite

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Mindy Weisberger (Johns Hopkins University Press)

A snail, eyestalks pulsing with coloured stripes, leaves the safety of the shade and oozes its way onto an exposed leaf, where it catches the beady eye of a bird. The larger animal mistakes those eyestalks for delicious caterpillars and pounces; in the process, it accidentally gobbles up the parasitic worms infesting the Succinea putris snail.

This poor mollusc is far from alone: worms, wasps and other creatures that manipulate their hosts’ behaviour are common in the…



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