Zombies are real – at least, in the insect world. The most famous example is a fungus that controls the minds and bodies of ants to help itself reproduce, but it's not the only thing to use the morbid ...

Beware the wasps that turn unsuspecting spiders into workaholic zombies. Japanese researchers have found that a wasp which lays its egg on the back of a spider can take control of its behaviour, ...

Deep in the rainforest of Ecuador, a tiny zombie apocalypse is taking place. Zombified spiders are drifting away from their colonies, building strange silk cocoons, and expiring on the forest floor.

There's no real human equivalent for the zombified attack, one of the most jarring styles of survival in the animal kingdom. For proof of how perplexing these attacks are, consider what parasitoid ...

Parasitoid wasps take control of spider minds to get them to do their bidding, turning them into obedient zombie workers. New research takes a closer look at the making of the spider zombies to figure ...

Scientists have discovered in Ecuador a new species of parasitic wasp that turns social spiders into zombies - that is, manipulating the arachnid to leave its colony. "Not only is this wasp targeting ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

Wasps are annoying and sometimes painful for us humans but they are even more of a problem for insects that they prey upon. One particularly creepy new discovery made by insect researchers reveals ...

Despite being completely non-threatening to humans, the golden orb weaver spider (Plesiometa argyra) has acid-yellow spots and pincer-like legs, and is as broad as a human fist. In other words, it ...

A terrifying new species of parasitic wasp that transforms its victims into suicidal zombies has been found in the Amazon. The nightmare bug turns spiders into helpless drones who abandon their own ...

A hijacked hormone may zombify spiders, altering their web-spinning behavior to favor wasp parasites. Setting off a startling chain of events, a parasitoid wasp can force a spider to weave a special ...