Rise of the zombie bugs the surprising science of parasitic mind-control
"In Rise of the Zombie Bugs, Mindy Weisberger explores the eerie yet fascinating phenomenon of real-life zombification in the insect class and among other invertebrates. Zombifying parasites reproduce by rewriting their victims' neurochemistry, transforming them into the 'walking dead' armies of cic...
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2025.
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Table of Contents:
- Zombifiers: an origin story
- Fungus among us, part I: zombie ants
- Fungus among us, part II: zombie flies, beetles, and millipedes
- The sleeper awakens: zombie cicadas
- Attack of the ooze: Zombifying viruses
- The original chest-bursters: zombifying wasps
- 'Til death do us part: zombie spiders, roaches and ladybugs
- Ant decapitators and rise of the zombees: zombifying flies
- What lies within: zombifying worms
- Our zombie future.
