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Sunday, May 3, 2009

Wasp Virus Holds Caterpillar In Thrall

I can't decide if this is better or worse than having an alien bust out through your chest:

A clip from a National Geographic program In the Womb: Extreme Animals, apparently due to air next week. There's a brief "yuk" portion, but you need to get past that to see the very end, where the effect of the parasites on the host's BRAIN is explained. The "wow" factor isn't the larvae in the body, but rather the behavior of the caterpillar after larval emergence that is truly incredible. Watch and see.
The natural world is so incredibly adaptive:

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