{"id":841369,"date":"2025-04-16T13:12:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T18:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/a-relationship-that-could-horrify-darwin-mindy-weisberger-on-the-skin-crawling-reality-of-insect-zombification\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T13:12:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T18:12:37","slug":"a-relationship-that-could-horrify-darwin-mindy-weisberger-on-the-skin-crawling-reality-of-insect-zombification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/a-relationship-that-could-horrify-darwin-mindy-weisberger-on-the-skin-crawling-reality-of-insect-zombification\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A relationship that could horrify Darwin&#8217;: Mindy Weisberger on the skin-crawling reality of insect zombification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Science writer Mindy Weisberger speaks to Live Science about the parasites that turn their hosts \u2014 whether ant, beetle or caterpillar \u2014 into zombie-like puppets that act against their own interests&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/animals\/insects\/a-relationship-that-could-horrify-darwin-mindy-weisberger-on-the-skin-crawling-reality-of-insect-zombification\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Larisa Motsinger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Science writer Mindy Weisberger speaks to Live Science about the parasites that turn their hosts \u2014 whether ant, beetle or caterpillar \u2014 into zombie-like puppets that act against their own interests&#8230;Read MoreLarisa Motsinger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":841370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143243,3860,536],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-841369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-horrify","8":"category-relationship","9":"category-science-nature"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}