(in Eng?ish)
The
interview opens with a swarm of emaciated bees chasing PiPs in a web
post-apocalyptic (and a bit 'eucalyptic' too, you know, just because of some
munching koalas that have been put here and there to add an 'ooooooh -big
dreamy anime like eyes- so cute' touch to downplay the whole horror zombie
thing) scenario which is a mix of '28 days later', 'Mary Poppins' and 'Animal
house' (shush, shush, don't ask, PiPs' reality is a very very, very peculiar
place).
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| by sciencemug |
PiPs- Those damn zombie bees! Now I bet
we'll have also to
face the zombie flowers, and the zombie honey, and then the zombie honey-moons
the zombie moons the zombie Apollo 13s and eventually the zombie Kevin Bacons! Ghaaaahhhhh,
a Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon zombie world... Ghaaaahhhhh... Bloody dead flying
things! We're so, so doomed... Ghaaaahhhhh!
Bee of the swarm1- Bzzrains, bzzraaains, bzzraaaa... Hey, wait a min, if we’re looking for brains, why the hell are we chasing a brainless post of an idiotic blog?
Bee of the swarm1- Bzzrains, bzzraaains, bzzraaaa... Hey, wait a min, if we’re looking for brains, why the hell are we chasing a brainless post of an idiotic blog?
Bos2- Dude,
if there were any logic in this mess you think we'd be screaming 'brains'
instead of 'pollen' in the first place?
Bos3- We can scream?
Bos3- We can scream?
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| PiPs_by SM |
P- Hey! Hey, you, what are you doing there, take shelter, they're coming! Hey, I'm talking to you, who are you?
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| E.Bueno by SM |
P- This is great! So you study the
zombie bees (or 'ZomBees' as you call 'em), this means you certainly have
the answers
to my questions: what happens to these bees? What 'zombieizes' them?
How? What are
you doing to understand the 'how' part in detail? Why Battlestar Galactica ended in
that crappy way? Do this last question make it clear to
you that I don't know what I'm saying the 103% of the times?
EB- A tiny parasitic fly
called the ‘zombie fly’ (scientific name: Apocephalus
borealis) [PicA] turns bees into
ZomBees! Female zombie flies use a needle-like organ, the ovipositor, [PicB] to inject
their eggs inside the bees bodies [PicC]. The eggs then hatch and eat honey bees guts!
Parasitized honey bees, the ZomBees, behave then very strangely at night. They
fly out of their hive, land underneath lights and become disoriented before
dying shortly after. |
| PIC A; PIC B; PIC C [CC pics; adapted by sciencemug (source: wikia.com)] (!) |
Their zombie like behavior has led me to ask “what is causing this behavior?” And “are zombie flies controlling this behavior?” I’m answering these questions
