#sciiiience

Body-snatched zombie ladybugs! It's not science fiction, but a real invasion of parasitic organisms.

Pretty photographs of parasitic organisms. I've heard of the hairworm (and some of the others before), and it's incredibly fascinating. I am not finding anything that says precisely how they do this (though I don't believe they actively seek out water so much as blindly stumble into it), and I think there's still room for more study. I'd like to know the mechanism - is it a hormone? Is the hairworm lesioning the motor cortex? Ugh, so cool.

This should go on the list of things I should consider studying, I guess. Frankly, though, I get unsettled enough working with dead insects, let alone zombified ones.