Poor
bees. First, there's the honeybee colonies
collapse disorder, then there's this: a parasite that turns bees into
zombies.
Honeybees (Apis mellifera) in California and South Dakota have
been observed acting zombielike, wandering away from their hives
at night and crawling around blindly in circles.
These insects have been rendered insensate by a parasitizing fly
that lays eggs in the bees’ bodies. After the bee dies a lonesome
death, pupae crawl out and grow to adult flies that seek new bodies
to infect.
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