How to find out if your friend is a zombie

6Oct2017:

When Augustin bites someone's arm:



9Oct2017:
Dinocampus coccinellae spins its cocoon between the legs of a spotted lady beetle.

There are real-life zombie ladybugs.

A tiny parasitic wasp injects a virus into ladybugs that turns them into zombie bodyguards for its young, a new study says.1

Those lazy, parasitic wasps who refuse to care for their own young remind me of Athenian-style slave-makers.  France has no shortage of Athenian-style slave-makers.


28Oct2017:

Ladypug

2Oct2017: 
When Augustin needs to silence dissent: 

11Oct2017:
That time a spam-bot hacked Augustin's account:



1. Owen, James. "Wasp Zombifies Ladybugs Using Virus as Bio-Weapon—a First." National Geographic. 10 Feb. 2015, http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/02/150210-zombies-ladybugs-wasps-parasites-animals-science/. Accessed 9 Oct. 2017.

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