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How to Kill Fire Ants: Step 1, Zombifiy. Step 2, Explode Heads.
Posted by Benny Bleiman on May 21, 2009
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It seems like we’ve been covering zombie bugs a lot lately. The newest story comes from Texas, where researchers are trying out a new form of pest control on invasive fire ants: using parasitic flies to lay eggs in the ants brains, zombify them, and then explode their heads with emerging larvae. Seems reasonable. We’re…
Weekly Readers’ Poll 3.0: Videos of the Weirdest Animals Yet!!
Posted by Benny Bleiman on December 12, 2007 Two weeks ago, we asked you what your favoritest animals in the world were. Then, last week we asked you to up the ante and get weirder. You responded in turn with a veritable cornucopia of odd critters some of which we had never heard of! (Just kidding of course we’d heard of them, we’re…