Mwahahaha... it's time for the Entocast Halloween Special! This time Nick and Liam discuss the freakiest insects they can find. From flesh-eaters to mind-controllers the insect world has a variety of spooky bugs!
Music as always by Kevin MacLeod at Incompetech.com, we use vanishing, this house, and breath, along with the normal disco medusae intro!
Extra halloween-esk music from Bensound.
Show Notes
Acanthaspis petax
By Orionmystery - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Note, for some reason Nick had in his head these guys were from Malaysia, they're actually from East Africa.
David Attenborough discusses A. petax
Study looking at use of ant corpses as disguise from spiders
Ampulex Compressa
Emerald Cockroach Wasp - Ampulex compressa
The cockroach wasp attacking it's cockroach host
Zombie ants - infested with Ophiocordyceps unilateralis
David Attenborough and Zombie ants
Human bot flies - Dermatobia hominis
*Warning gruesome content* Bot fly being removed from a girl's scalp
Africanised Honey Bee - Apis mellifera scutellata Lepeletier
Ant infested with Ophiocordyceps unilateralis
