PARASITES MAKE SUICIDAL GRASSHOPPERS. “Hairworms, which live inside grasshoppers, pump the insects with a cocktail of chemicals that makes them commit suicide by leaping into water. The parasites then swim away from their drowning hosts to continue their life cycle.”
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/0901_050901_wormparasite.html
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022