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Scientists have observed a new parasitic behavior between a wasp and a social species of spider, where the spider re-learned an ancestral behavior!

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Sources:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5938628/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/icad.12307?saml_referrer
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/wasp-turns-social-spiders-zombies-build-their-cocoons-real-life-horror-story-180970919/
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0171336
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-a-wasp-turns-cockroaches-into-zombies1/
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