Newly Discovered Wasp Turns Social Spiders into Zombies

ENN
Nov 27, 2018, 2:53 pm91 pts
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.

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