[These are the first last words of a species][link]. The last last words are “ACK IT IS ABSORBING ME.”
[link]: http://www.adn.com/2835/story/864687.html “Huge blob of Arctic goo floats past Slope communities: Arctic Alaska | adn.com”
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[Soon it will be we that they imitate][link].
[link]: http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/07/spider_mimics_ant_to_eat_spiders_and_avoid_being_eaten_by_sp.php “Spider mimics ant to eat spiders and avoid being eaten by spiders : Not Exactly Rocket Science”
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Astros-Padres finale delayed by bees
[The Bees have finally gone too far][link]. They are testing us, and we are failing.
[link]: http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090701&content_id=5648144&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb “Astros-Padres finale delayed by bees | MLB.com: News”
[By way of, naturally, the BBC][link]:
>The colony may be the largest of its type ever known for any insect species, and could rival humans in the scale of its world domination.
>What’s more, people are unwittingly helping the mega-colony stick together.
[link]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8127000/8127519.stm “BBC – Earth News – Ant mega-colony takes over world”
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The Radioactive Wasps of Hanford
[Not from a movie or script, but real life][link]:
>The contractor handling the clean-up, Washington Closure, says the nests were all built in 2003 when water was used to dampen dust during demolition of an H Reactor basin. That attracted the wasps that used the mud to make tube-shaped nests for eggs.
[link]: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009327345_webnukedwasps11m.html “Local News | Radioactive wasp nests at Hanford reservation | Seattle Times Newspaper”
>[The flies “dive-bomb” the fire ants and lay eggs. The maggot that hatches inside the ant eats away at the brain, and the ant starts exhibiting what some might say is zombie-like behavior.][link]
… and then …
>The maggot eventually migrates into the ant’s head, but Plowes said he “wouldn’t use the word ‘control’ to describe what is happening. There is no brain left in the ant, and the ant just starts wandering aimlessly. This wandering stage goes on for about two weeks.”
[link]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090512/sc_mcclatchy/3231765 “Parasitic flies turn fire ants into zombies”
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H. sadistica
Normally to inseminate a female you have to have some sex with that. You know, male and female sex organs doing their thing. Well:
>[Milan Rezic, an entomologist at the Crop Research Institute in Prague, has spotted a spider circumventing this problem by delivering sperm directly to the ovaries via holes that the males bore directly in the females’ abdomens.][link]
[link]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8023413.stm “BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Spider sex violent but effective”