Taking a Look at Zombie Ants

Parasites can manipulate hosts in many different ways. In the article “Suicide Grasshoppers Brainwashed by Parasite Worms,” James Owen describes the relationship between parasite hairworms and grasshoppers. These parasitic worms find a host, such as a grasshopper, and enter the body. After entering the host, the worms cause the grasshoppers to commit suicide by jumping into the water. This article explains how parasites cause grasshoppers to commit suicide, how the parasites enter and exit the host, and how scientists use this information to create a better understanding in research about parasitical behaviors.

Anthrax is a fatal infection of the skin, respiratory system, or gastroineutinal systems. Affects most animals that are herbivores. The life cycle of anthrax starts with the animal and when the animal dies, the diseases sits on the soil while the other mammals eat the grass from that spot. Louis Pasteur developed a vaccine for his sheep to prevent them from getting anthrax which led other doctors and scientist to acknowledge

Your zombie usually does not behave normally that resembles anything that was once human. Once mutation has occurred, it is easy to tell at first look that that risen zombie is no longer a living member of the human society. Its movement is generally slow with very poor skills and coordination. Its walk is clumsy and unbalanced. This is caused in part by the cellular decay of their nerves and tissue, and also the poor functioning of the portion of the brain that controls functions. Without control of their circulatory and other systems, the body begins to decay quite fast. This rapid decay occurs in all parts of the body including the eyes, leaving zombies with a very poor sense of sight. This makes them even

Zimmer emphasizes his prologue in two different stories. The first story is about a twelve-year-old boy named Justin who lives in Tambura Sudan infected with a single cell parasite called a trypanosome also known as the sleeping disease. Zimmer explains that the parasite is transmitted by two different hosts the tsetse fly and humans. The infection cycle starts with the tsetse fly drinking human’s blood pouring in Trypanosomes. The trypanosomes then steal oxygen and glucose invading all the organs including the brain. Sleeping sickness gets its named from the way trypanosomes disorder people brains by damaging the biological clock and turning day to night. Justin had to take some injections of melarsoprol which contains twenty percent of arsenic and steroids for swelling. This brutal procedure was followed because Justin had parasites in his brain.

“The creation of a structure of good and evil…[is] a function of intelligence-unquestionably the ultimate evil may [be] the destruction of conscious intelligence.”(8) In the psychoanalytical story ‘The Large Ant’, by Howard Fast, a multitude of facets portray how fear morphed history throughout time. ‘The Large Ant’ locates itself some years after the Second World war, atom bombs having been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. With a communist regime on the rise, ‘The Large Ant’ parallels Cold War hostilities and breaks apart the intentions of a humanity through the use of theories, including classical conditioning, defence mechanisms, and group influences.

The scratching of the bites caused transmission of the organism to close other bites or broken skin which caused the Impetigo to spread. It is most likely that he picked up the microorganism from attending preschool for the first time, as there was a large range of new microorganisms causing Timothy to be a susceptible host.

In a land far far away there were two anthills. Only two in the land. The anthills were not aware of their existence. In one anthill brimming with collected resources and a fair queen lived the Opie ants. In the other there were corrupted a corrupted queen who made the ants work until their death to satisfy her. Those were the Totie ants. Some of the Totie ants were good and hardworking but some turned evil just like the queen. The Totie ants and the Opie ants had the same anthills but different leader. The Opies had an abundance of food; whereas the Totie ants were starving because the queen only looked after her own well-being and ate all the food. The Totie ants were miserable with their leaders and eventually there

While technology is commonly thought of as inventions and gadgets, anything that humans have developed for specific purposes or to accomplish certain goals, such as methods or models, must also be correctly categorized as such. In Cathy Davidson’s essay “Project Classroom Makeover,” she discusses a few unconventional forms of technology such as the educational classroom paradigm and standardization. Similarly, in Steve Johnson’s essay “The Myth of the Ant Queen,” he presents procedural technology, such as self-organizing systems, and conceptual technology, collaborative intelligence. He then utilizes another conceptual form of technology, the complexity theory, to interpret these systems’ seemingly uncoordinated patterns. Sherry Turkle branches off of Davidson and Johnson’s ideas by discussing the consequences of questioning what makes a robot alive in her essay “Alone Together.” This narrative highlights the technology’s effect on humans and the reality of robots either improving or diminishing an individual’s quality of life. Besides the slight apprehension of its future usage, humans are mesmerized by the promising potential technology presents. Additionally, structural or paradigmatic technology is deeply intertwined and inherent within society’s functioning, making it impossible to separate technology from human existence.

A feedback loop takes the power of something and changes it into something that would be considered better and brighter. It is adjusted until the desired object is the output of the system. For example, like Newton’s third law, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. In “The Myth of the Ant Queen” by Steven Johnson, he explains the level of intelligence behind certain and different types of systems, and deciphers the systems to understand and comprehend what makes them work or survive. Comparing it to Johnson, in “Biographies of Hegemony” by Karen Ho, is the breakdown of how the companies of Wall Street are invading the space of Ivy League institutions and how the students are being groomed to work in certain areas of these

In the Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan, one the biggest topics in the story is zombies. Recently scientists have found a fungus called Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, or more famously called as "Zombie ant fungus". After killing its host, the zombie ant fungus grows from the ant's body and produces spores, which rain down on the forest floor to infect new hosts. The zombie ant fungi is named for its ability to control the behavior of its host in this case. All of the characters of The Forest of Hands and Teeth all the characters would be shocked because.

The zombie fungus has mostly been known to control the brains of ants, but don’t manipulate just any type of ant and turn them into zombies (Castro, 2009). These parasitic fungi are able to recognise different types of brains from different ant species and only releases its mind controlling chemical when they find the perfect host that they would like to inhabit in (Castro, 2009). This type of relationship is known as a behavioural manipulation which is a complex characteristic that is a close coevolution normally between the pathogen and its host (Castro, 2009). These zombie fungus like to use carpenter ants as their host due to many abiotic and biotic factors which these ants are able to provide for the survival of these fungi (Life Science

Have you ever seen a bee acting weird? They act weird because of parasites.The authors propose of writing this article is to inform the readers about ants turning “zombie-like” before they die and how they get infected. In the article, it states “Dr. hafernik first discovered something eerie was happening to the bees on his campus in 2008 when he stumbled upon several of them staggering in circles along the sidewalk. For weeks he picked up a few of them in a glass vial with plants to feed his pet praying mantis. One day he came across a vial he had forgotten on his desk for a couple of weeks. The bees inside were dead, but the vial was overwhelmed with small brown fly pupae. He came to the conclusion that the bees were parasites.” This evidence

How the disease was transmitted was further looked on by Nelson (1995). According to the said author, the disease was transmitted primarily by fleas and rats. The stomachs of the fleas were infected with bacteria known Y. Pestis. Nelson held that “the bacteria would block the "throat" of infected fleas so that no blood could reach their stomachs, and they grew ravenous since they were starving to death” (1995, par. 14). The bacteria would then attempt to suck up blood from their victims, only to disgorge it back into their preys' bloodstreams (Nelson, 1995). Now, however, the victims' blood was mixed with Y. Pestis. Fleas infected rats in this fashion, and the rats spread the disease to other rats and fleas before dying (Nelson, 1995). Without rodent hosts, the fleas then migrated to the bodies of humans and infected them in the same fashion as they had the rats .

The ghost ant is a type of house pest that first appeared in Florida in the late 1980s. Since then, the ants have become common across south and central Florida. They can even become found in northern states as long as they have a greenhouse or a warm building that they can survive in. Native to Asia or Africa, these ants have spread across the world by global trade, which makes it difficult to figure out where they are originally from.

Biological transmission occurs when the pathogen reproduces within a biological vector that transmits the pathogen from one host to another . Arthropods are the main vectors responsible for biological transmission. For example, hemipterans (called “kissing bugs” or “assassin bugs”) transmit Chagas disease to humans by defecating when they bite, after which the hu-man scratches or rubs the infected feces into a mucous membrane or break in the