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JustMeBF2
05-13-2009, 11:22 AM
Info

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090512/sc_mcclatchy/3231765

Video

http://www.ketv.com/video/19446421/index.html

Releasing parasite flies scares me.
Crotch-Rot
05-13-2009, 12:20 PM
That's crazy! I saw that in the news this morning too. Zombie ants with parasites growing inside them, then their heads fall off. Kinda like Alien with ants...
Tykwer
05-13-2009, 12:47 PM
I've caught insects at Brackenridge Field Lab. Would've been cool to get a parasitized ant.
atomicbob
05-13-2009, 02:33 PM
Oh noooooz!!! Call in the zombie ant eaters!!

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_omN7Z1yQTlY/SCZV4koiBxI/AAAAAAAABFI/Mk7U2xEeMFA/s400/anteater5.jpg
Crotch-Rot
05-13-2009, 03:26 PM
LOL AB! Nice one!
FiLTHY_SNiPER
05-13-2009, 04:40 PM
I swear to god, Bob has a picture ready for friggn everything
SLCoran
05-13-2009, 07:53 PM
It's the beginning of Zombieggedon!!!!
:minigun:
lamah
05-13-2009, 08:37 PM
lol :woot:
SnaKe
05-13-2009, 09:33 PM
I swear to god, Bob has a picture ready for friggn everything:lol:
kilroy0097
05-14-2009, 01:08 AM
All joking aside, I'm always worried when scientists introduce a new species into the local environment. They never seem to really think about what kind of mayhem the new species might reek upon other insects, animals and humans in the area. Everything has a natural predator. When you introduce something into the environment that does not have a predator bad things usually start to happen. If they migrated up here naturally I wouldn't be all that concerned. Bad things come from actions such as these all the time and yet they don't seem to stop and think about them. Maybe they do know what they are doing but I'm wary.
Mad5cout
05-14-2009, 08:13 AM
All joking aside, I'm always worried when scientists introduce a new species into the local environment. They never seem to really think about what kind of mayhem the new species might reek upon other insects, animals and humans in the area. Everything has a natural predator. When you introduce something into the environment that does not have a predator bad things usually start to happen. If they migrated up here naturally I wouldn't be all that concerned. Bad things come from actions such as these all the time and yet they don't seem to stop and think about them. Maybe they do know what they are doing but I'm wary.

:melikey: