These are among the curious critters of The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar, a jaunt through evolution's most unbelievable, most ingenious solutions to the problems of everyday life, from trying to get laid to finding food.

Author: Matt Simon

Publisher: Hachette UK

ISBN: 9781472242020

Category: Humor

Page: 272

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For fans of WHAT IF? and NEW SCIENTIST comes this brilliantly funny and informative look at the stranger side of evolution. Featuring: The Zombie ants mind-controlled by a fungus Beautiful salamanders that can regenerate any part of their bodies, including their brains The mantis shrimp, which fires its club-like appendage so fast that the surrounding water becomes as hot as the surface of the sun The Antechinus, whose runaway testosterone levels cause them to have so much sex during their three-week mating season that they bleed internally, go blind, and drop dead... Featuring quirky illustrations and the signature blend of science smarts and humour that make Matt Simon's Wired column so entertaining, this is an ideal stocking-filler for every popular science aficionado...

. . You'll be thinking about this book long after you're done reading it.” —Kelly Weinersmith, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Soonish

Author: Matt Simon

Publisher: Penguin

ISBN: 9781524705145

Category: Science

Page: 256

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A brain-bending exploration of real-life zombies and mind controllers, and what they reveal to us about nature—and ourselves Zombieism isn’t just the stuff of movies and TV shows like The Walking Dead. It’s real, and it’s happening in the world around us, from wasps and worms to dogs and moose—and even humans. In Plight of the Living Dead, science journalist Matt Simon documents his journey through the bizarre evolutionary history of mind control. Along the way, he visits a lab where scientists infect ants with zombifying fungi, joins the search for kamikaze crickets in the hills of New Mexico, and travels to Israel to meet the wasp that stings cockroaches in the brain before leading them to their doom. Nothing Hollywood dreams up can match the brilliant, horrific zombies that natural selection has produced time and time again. Plight of the Living Dead is a surreal dive into a world that would be totally unbelievable if very smart scientists didn’t happen to be proving it’s real, and most troublingly—or maybe intriguingly—of all: how even we humans are affected. “Fantastic . . . You'll be thinking about this book long after you're done reading it.” —Kelly Weinersmith, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Soonish

BRAINWASHED CATERPILLAR One species of wasp is a unique parasite. It
injects up to 80 larvae into a caterpillar. The larvae grow by eating the host's
blood and body fluids. They make sure not to kill it. Then, the larvae chew their
way out ...

Author: Emma Huddleston

Publisher: ABDO

ISBN: 9781532176876

Category: Animal-plant relationships

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This book looks at the amazing relationships between living things, as well as the threats they face and how people can protect them.

KENNETH MIDDLEHAM PHOTO This wasp is called Hyposoter exiguae . It is a
parasite of the bollworm , beet ... C indicates the skin and head capsule of the
dead host caterpillar . D is the exit hold made by the wasp in escaping its cocoon
. One very appealing ... This may seem elementary , but society has been
brainwashed into believing that " the only good bug is a dead bug . " Biological
control has ...

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ISBN: CORNELL:31924063877264

Category: Agricultural ecology

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