Wasp performs roach-brain-surgery to make zombie slave-roaches

A friend just forwarded this to me.  This is just about the craziest thing I've heard.  I find it extremely fascinating and terrifying.

Wasp performs roach-brain-surgery to make zombie slave-roaches

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/03/...

From the outside, the effect is surreal. The wasp does not paralyze the cockroach. In fact, the roach is able to lift up its front legs again and walk. But now it cannot move of its own accord. The wasp takes hold of one of the roach's antennae and leads it--in the words of Israeli scientists who study Ampulex--like a dog on a leash.

Comments

[rebecca]

groooody!

[Papi Chulo]

That is one of the most awesome and sinister things I have ever heard of. It's too bad scientists are too uptight to refer to the roach as the wasp's "bitch". 

[jason]

I used to work for that wasp!

[Jon]

holy shit