Grisly new e-book unearths what zombie bugs can train us

Rise of the Zombie Bugs
Mindy Weisberger (Johns Hopkins University Press)

A snail, eyestalks pulsing with colored stripes, leaves the security of the colour and oozes its approach onto an uncovered leaf, the place it catches the beady eye of a hen. The greater animal errors the ones eyestalks for scrumptious caterpillars and pounces; within the procedure, it unintentionally gobbles up the parasitic worms infesting the Succinea putris snail.

This deficient mollusc is a long way from by myself: worms, wasps and different creatures that manipulate their hosts’ behaviour are not unusual within the…