Zombie bees invade Washington state

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From last week…*SEATTLE (AP) – The infection is as grim as it sounds: “Zombie bees” have a parasite that causes them to fly at night and lurch around erratically until they die. … The life cycle of the fly that infects zombie bees is reminiscent of the movie “Alien,” the newspaper reported. A small adult female lands on the back of a honeybee and injects eggs into the bee’s abdomen. The eggs hatch into maggots.
“They basically eat the insides out of the bee,” Hafernik said.
After consuming their host, the maggots pupate, forming a hard outer shell that looks like a fat, brown grain of rice.*Story at USA Today
 
Courtney_R said:
That’s a low blow if it was intended to be directed negatively toward Americans, unless of course, you think we just have too many bees here.
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I’m talking about getting rid of those fire ants in America, NOT the bees.
 
Grisly… yet so fascinating.

And just in time for Halloween! 8D
 
I just completed a one day course in biological terrorism last weekend. My instructor was telling us that the Russia is actively seeking to destroy us economically and agriculturally through the use of engineered bio weapons that attacks one specific organism or animal. In this case, it is the honey bee. Think about it. Bees are vital to pollination and agriculture. We are the leader in agribusiness and it makes sense to destroy or attack us.

There is a bunch of other incidents involving the Russian and other insects, but I can’t disclose to you because it is classified information. Either my instructor or the government is full of cow manure. Seriously, why all of sudden we are having outbreaks of zombie this and zombie that?
 
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