{"id":815,"date":"2007-11-30T13:05:16","date_gmt":"2007-11-30T13:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2007\/11\/30\/zombie-cockroaches\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:19:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:19:40","slug":"zombie-cockroaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2007\/11\/30\/zombie-cockroaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Zombie Cockroaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reported at Slashdot:<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<table width=\"90%\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"genmed\"><b>Quote:<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"quote\">Zombie insects might sound like a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bgu.ac.il\/life\/Faculty\/Libersat\/movies\/Wasp_movie_short.mpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">B-movie plot device<\/a> but to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ampulex_compressa\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">emerald cockroach wasp<\/a> (<span style=\"font-style: italic\">Ampulex compressa<\/span>), they&#8217;re a tried and tested way to provide food for their hungry larvae. The wasp relies on cockroaches for its grisly life cycle but unlike many venomous predators, which paralyse their victims before eating them, the wasp&#8217;s sting leaves the cockroach able to walk, but unable to initiate its own movement.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/firehose.pl?id=402899&amp;amp;op=view\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">Continued&#8230;<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/bb\/weblogs\/upload\/16\/70363422547500a3da0033.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reported at Slashdot: Quote: Zombie insects might sound like a B-movie plot device but to the emerald cockroach wasp (Ampulex compressa), they&#8217;re a tried and tested way to provide food for their hungry larvae. The wasp relies on cockroaches for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2007\/11\/30\/zombie-cockroaches\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Zombie Cockroaches - The Geek Curmudgeon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2007\/11\/30\/zombie-cockroaches\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Zombie Cockroaches - The Geek Curmudgeon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Reported at Slashdot: Quote: Zombie insects might sound like a B-movie plot device but to the emerald cockroach wasp (Ampulex compressa), they&#8217;re a tried and tested way to provide food for their hungry larvae. 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