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Body Snatchers! Four of Nature’s Freakiest Parasites - Deep Look

Body Snatchers! Four of Nature’s Freakiest Parasites - Deep Look

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Zombies, vampires and mind-controlling body snatchers aren’t just fantastical creatures from horror movies. In nature, a fungus can control the mind of a fruit fly, a hairworm can hijack a cricket’s brain and body, tiny vampire-like mites feast on honeybees, and a tiny parasite can sabotage a monarch butterfly’s metamorphosis. 00: 00 Introduction 00: 32 This fruit fly is infiltrated by a powerful parasite 04: 34 This hairworm wants to be eaten 08: 37 These tiny mites can kill a beehive 14: 42 These parasites mess with monarchs #deeplook #4knature #nature #4kvideo Donate to KQED, the public media station that makes Deep Look: SIGN UP for Deep Look’s newsletter, Nature Unseen: SUBSCRIBE: --- Find a transcript on KQED Science: --- More great Deep Look episodes: Copycats! This Ant Is Surrounded By Imposters Can You Spot These Insane Camouflaged Animals 5 Tiny Pests That Could Be In Your Home Right Now --- Thank you to our top Patreon supporters ($10 per month! Name Alex Butler Bridget Kelly Burt Humburg Carrie Mukaida Christopher Williams Companion Cube Craig Rosa Cristen Rasmussen Daisuke Goto David Deshpande Duane Westhoff El Samuels Elena De La Paz Elizabeth Ann Ditz Giancarlo Yzcali Lizarraga J Schumacher Jeremiah Sullivan Julia Karen Reynolds KayLa Laurel Przybylski Levi Cai Louis O'Neill manamonarch Marilyn Schiffman Mehdi Noreen Herrington R Roberta K Wright STEPHANIE DOLE The Mighty X Titania Juang Wade Tregaskis Wised1000 wormy boi xkymon --- Follow Deep Look and KQED Science on social: TikTok: / deeplookofficial Patreon: / deeplook Instagram: / kqedscience Twitter/X: / kqedscience --- About KQED: KQED, an NPR and PBS member station in San Francisco, serves Northern California and beyond with a public-supported alternative to commercial TV, radio and web media. Funding for Deep Look is provided in part by PBS Digital Studios and the members of KQED. #insects #wildlife #bugs #4kvideo #deeplook #kqed
Date: 2026-10-28

Comments and reviews: 9


The segment on monarch butterflies shows that even our good intentions like planting milkweed can backfire and hurt the species. I think we need to stop pretending we can manage ecosystems better than they manage themselves. Are humans fundamentally incapable of helping nature without accidentally causing more harm
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I'm not being controlled I just really like breeding psychic worms what's wrong with that
Just because I have an unusual hobby I'm infested So much for the open minded and accepting occult community.

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all these mention of can't affect or don't target human, need to add a [yet] behind them, zoonotic infections happen all the time. things that used to not affect human, eventually do.
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Honestly, I prefer going through research papers rather than studying the fungus. Scientisis' avid attitude to further knowledge & bravery should properly be appreciated.
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Four body-snatchers and every single one is WORSE than the last! stage whisper I checked under my own skin twice: 8 out of 19 squeaky parasite puppeteers!
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Good to know about the tropical milkweeds. I've always heard the tropical milkweeds help monarchs passing through on their way south in the fall.
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Milkweed. improper information, despite unintentionally, could destroy ecosystem, bringing about disproportionate consequences. Scary.
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The sad part is that there are multiple types of lethal parasites for monarch caterpillars OE and also tachnid flies and parasitic wasps
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It took nature millions of years to evolve real parasites.
Politicians managed to hijack human minds in just a few centuries.

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