Rise of the Zombie Bugs” explores how parasites create real-life zombies in the insect and invertebrate world.

The idea of zombies has fascinated humans for centuries. Real-life parasites have been taking over the minds of insects for eons.

In the remote savanna of the Northern Territory, scientists have made an eerie discovery: zombie ants ... the fungus needed to infect the ants through spores to finish its life cycle. Once infected, ...

with the smaller ants that surround her tending to her every need. The life cycle of ants is described; the queen lays the eggs which hatch into larvae and then change to become the ants in the ...

In this excerpt from "Rise of the Zombie Bugs ... end up inside an ant, its host enters the realm of the walking dead. Once the egg hatches, the ant has only a few weeks of life before it ...

A fungus not yet known to modern science was recently discovered in a remote savanna in the Northern Territory.