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Friday 5 April 2013

Mind controlling parasites: Green banded brodsac

 This is a kind of worm that likes to live inside of birds. But to get inside of a bird it has to get into a birds food. Certain snails like to eat bird feces which is where the Green banded brodsac larvae end up. When the snail finds this piece of bird feces it will eat it, but little dose it know that it is also eating a parasite. Once the Green banded brodsac is inside the caterpillar it takes over its brain and makes it go to a really open place, it then works its way into its antenna and moves backward and forwards making the birds think it is a maggot. The bird then eats it and the Green banded brodsac can now reproduce and continue its life cycle.

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