stuff. things. ZOMBIE ANTS.

[tsuki_no_bara]

i just spent some quality time totally unexpectedly telling rich the coworker about cynthia ann parker. this makes even less sense if i tell you i came into the conversation when he and the other architect were talking about michael jackson's nose.

(cynthia ann parker. someone write her story so i don't have to.)

sort of in that vein, verb_noire has put

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[deaver]

Zombie ants! I can't even read the article - it's just too freaky!

[tsuki_no_bara]

i had to read it because i was curious, but yes, FREAKY AS HELL.

[angelchildr]

I am a fan of programs on Discovery or Animal Planet, and I've heard of stuff like this before. Or spores that make the insects pretty much hallucinate until they die.

...Nature gives the best sci-fi plot bunnies. :-D

[tsuki_no_bara]

hallucinating until death is slightly less creepy than zombification. it makes me think of bunnies sprawled in a field tripping on acid. man, mother nature's weird.

[klgaffney]

oh jeez. what a tragic, frustrating, infuriating story. =(

the verb_noire thing sounds pretty neat. can't write short stories to save my ass, tho.

ZOMBIE ANTS. D:

[tsuki_no_bara]

i always thought cynthia ann parker ultimately died of a broken heart. i really wish she'd gotten to tell her own story.

i can't write folktales. >.< sounds like it should make a nifty anthology, tho.

CREEPTASTIC.

[white_aster]

When I was in grad school, my lab studied this one virus that infected this certain type of caterpillars. The virus would replicate to such a degree that it would essentially gooify and melt the caterpillar. Funny thing was that the insects tended to climb up high on branches/grasses/etc. when they were just about to die...which meant that their gooey remains were easily blown about by the wind, etc.

No one knows why they do that, whether it's due to the virus or what, but it's still the same kind of O_o thing. ._.

[tsuki_no_bara]

that's also creepy! seriously, mother nature cooks up some freaky-ass virii.

[white_aster]

Mother nature is a BITCH, really. ;P

[tsuki_no_bara]

I KNOW! IS THAT FREAKY AS HELL, OR WHAT?