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Posted: **Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:37 am**

"Wasp performs roach-brain-surgery to make zombie slave-roaches
Ampulex compressa is a wasp that has evolved to tackle roaches, insert a stinger into their brains and disable their escape reflexes. This lets the wasp use the roach's antennae to steer the roach to its lair, where it can lay its egg in it. Parasite Rex author Carl Zimmer tells the story in gooey, graphic detail:

The wasp slips her stinger through the roach's exoskeleton and directly into its brain. She apparently uses sensors along the sides of the stinger to guide it through the brain, a bit like a surgeon snaking his way to an appendix with a laparoscope. She continues to probe the roach's brain until she reaches one particular spot that appears to control the escape reflex. She injects a second venom that influences these neurons in such a way that the escape reflex disappears.

Click the link to read more:

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/03/wa ... oachb.html

Fun for the whole family!

Posted: **Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:54 am**

noooooooooo waaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy

Posted: **Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:56 am**

poax wrote:

noooooooooo waaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy

LOL --
Isn't that gnarly ?

Posted: **Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:43 am**

I want to see that in moving images.

Posted: **Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:51 am**

metalboxproducts wrote:I want to see that in moving images.

well here is a video of the result:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEwaHPQfBpQ

pretty cool if you ask me. but then i am a nerd so...

Posted: **Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:54 am**

Hot shit. I hope the don't start laying in humans.

Posted: **Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:59 am**

metalboxproducts wrote: Hot shit. I hope the don't start laying in humans.

well, metalbox i was going to do a post on human parasites but i decided that I would ease people into the idea first

Posted: **Mon Dec 18, 2006 1:08 pm**

selector.dub.u wrote:
metalboxproducts wrote: Hot shit. I hope the don't start laying in humans.
well, metalbox i was going to do a post on human parasites but i decided that I would ease people into the idea first

I think i've read one of that guys books..

Posted: **Mon Dec 18, 2006 3:04 pm**

i wonder if the wasps sit round drinking cider on street corners thinking

''yo blud im gunna get me a decent ride tonight seen'' ''a roachracer 2 ltr''

Posted: **Mon Dec 18, 2006 6:48 pm**

dub.u that is incredible.

you should standardly win some kind of award for best thread name of the year as well.

come to think of it, what happened to the outstanding contribution to o/t award? shonky must be miffed, he looked like he was gonna have that sewn up.

Posted: **Mon Dec 18, 2006 6:59 pm**

THEY YANKED IT FOR FEAR OF PROMOTION OF AGGRESSION THREAD

its a conspiracy

Posted: **Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:30 pm**

mos dan wrote:come to think of it, what happened to the outstanding contribution to o/t award? shonky must be miffed, he looked like he was gonna have that sewn up.

Yeah, I know, it's an amazing setback, but due to the gift of booze, I shall endure.

Must say this is an amazing thread, but I would like to point out that I've been doing a similar thing with paper clips for years. I don't use cockroaches, but I have found that very drunk people operate in a very similar manner with the right procedures. You now have an excuse for drunken morality, you can just blame me. You will have to find me first though.

I am legion by the way.

Posted: **Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:45 pm**

mos dan wrote:dub.u that is incredible.

you should standardly win some kind of award for best thread name of the year as well.

come to think of it, what happened to the outstanding contribution to o/t award? shonky must be miffed, he looked like he was gonna have that sewn up.

well i actually jacked the name of the thread from the article so-- i don't think I would deserve a nomination for that.

Thanks anyway

as far as the offtopic awards go- maybe we can run our own poll in offtopic?

Posted: **Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:55 pm**

Parson wrote:THEY YANKED IT FOR FEAR OF PROMOTION OF AGGRESSION THREAD

its a conspiracy

Shut the fuck up man, you'll get us all killed.

Oh, look - pretty helicopter!!!

Posted: **Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:56 pm**

selector.dub.u wrote:
as far as the offtopic awards go- maybe we can run our own poll in offtopic?

brilliant idea

Posted: **Tue Dec 19, 2006 12:00 am**

seriously, one of the cooler things ive seen or heard of.

where I live, we have these wasps called 'pepsis wasps'

their like this long:

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like the size of a hummingbird. and they land on tarantulas here and paralize em, then lay eggs in the tarantula and the tarantula gets eaten by the wasp larvae. not as cool as the roach wasp, but ive actually seen a pepsis wasp fly down and land on a tarantula and drag it into the bushes.

it sounded like a fucking animal was in the bushes... two huge-ass insects battling it out... it was creeepy, but cool

nature is fucked UP.

Posted: **Tue Dec 19, 2006 3:40 am**

holy shit! quality find dub u

Posted: **Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:44 am**

Do you think if I perform surgery on one of those wasps I can have my own tiny cockroach army?

Its what I've always wanted!!

Posted: **Tue Dec 19, 2006 8:25 am**

flemmily wrote:Do you think if I perform surgery on one of those wasps I can have my own tiny cockroach army?

Its what I've always wanted!!

I was wondering what I wanted for Christmas and then you mentioned this. I think an army of socks is not going to be quite so scary.

Might be better to have the wasp army and then they can run the cockroaches as advance troops/cannon fodder.

Come my evil insect empire, come....

Posted: **Tue Dec 19, 2006 8:25 am**

flemmily wrote:Do you think if I perform surgery on one of those wasps I can have my own tiny cockroach army?

Its what I've always wanted!!

Sure flemmily .

you will also need replicate about one hundred thousand of these zomby wasps under your control as well though.