TED-Ed

Parasite tales: The jewel wasp's zombie slave - Carl Zimmer

TV-PG
2013 • E30    Jan 28, 2013    10m
This is stranger than science fiction. The jewel wasp and the cockroach have a disgusting and fascinating parasitic relationship. The jewel wasp stuns the cockroach, and months later, a jewel wasp hatches out of the cockroach. At TEDYouth 2012, Carl Zimmer walks us through how this happens and why it personally fascinates him.

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