This is like Aliens realized...

[AVGWarhawk]

https://www.cnet.com/news/scientists...CNET+River+RSS)

The species of spider, Anelosimus eximius, create elaborate bucket-like webs with thousands of its family members. It's deemed a "social spider" because it cooperates with other spiders of its communal home in sharing hunting, parenting and feeding duties.

That is, until a Zatypota parasitoid wasp lays an egg on its abdomen.

Once the wasp's deposited egg hatches, a larva emerges, attaching itself to the spider and feeding on it, sucking on the blood-like haemolymph to survive. At this point, the spider's behaviour changes and it becomes enslaved by the larva, moving away from its communal nest to create a cocoon-shaped web of its own.

The larva feeds on the spider until it dies, in the relative safety of the cocoon-shaped web its host just built before spinning its own cocoon and, eventually, emerging as a beautiful, regal wasp.

https://www.cnet.com/news/scientists...CNET+River+RSS)

[Skybird]

Humans are known to have their behaviour altered by a parasite carried by housecats, like this bug also manipulates the cat. Humans can either form depressive symptoms, or engage in acts and behaviour styles that allow the parasite to migrate to new organisms. Many housecats hold this parasite. Its role has long been underestimated.

Cat keepers should ask their doctor about it, and ask their veterinary to check their cat - regularly, if it is allowed to walk freely outside.

Cat loos have no place in kitchens!

Quite some evolutionary biologists say that they see the parasitical lifestyle to be the evolutionary most successful of all. - Life is not fair.

[Dowly]

@AVGWarhawk

That is exactly where the idea for the Alien's lifecycle came from.

https://alienseries.wordpress.com/20...ect-influence/

[AVGWarhawk]

Crazy man! Just crazy! Stop the planet. I want to get off!!

[Jimbuna]

Hopefully at the rate the Amazon is being obliterated will see the buggas become extinct.