What are zombie ants?Also have you ever heard of zombie snails?
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This is a long story so hold on and bear with me OK?\nThe lancet fluke (Dicrocoelium lanceolatum) belongs to the order Trematoda. Like other flukes, scientifically called trematodes, it as well shows a generation cycle with a change of reproduction as well as a change of hosts. The terminal host are mammals, usually sheep or goats. The distribute the fluke's eggs by their excrements on plants, on which snails feed. Those snails again are the intermediate host. . \nThose snails, mostly hygromiid snails of the species Helicella or enid snails (Zebrina), take in the flukes eggs together with their food. In the snail's digestive gland the fluke' first larval generation hatches. That generation is called miracidium. A miracidium is a simply built larva with few resemblance to the adult fluke. It is able to swim or at least to float by a ciliar crest. The miracidium makes a metamorphosis inside the snail, resulting in the next larval stage, that more resembles the adult fluke. The so called cercary has got a tail that propels it in the water. The cercaries change themselves in endurance stages called cystes, that the snails surrounds with a mucus layer and excretes them.\nRed ant (Formica rufa). Source: Manfred Eidelloth.   \nAnts eat those mucus balls (obviously the mucus contains also certain pheromones that makes it highly attractive to ants) and then are afflicted by the cercaries. The cercaries grow in the ants' abdomen (terminal body part) and then one of them moves into the head. There they afflict the ant's nervous system and cause a change of behaviour, that makes Bernard Werber *) call them "zombie ants". The ants now, very untypically, climb up plant stems and attach themselves with their mandibles to exposed positions such as leaves. Grazing mammals, such as sheep or goats, eat the plants together with the ants and then infect themselves with the lesser liver fluke. Inside this terminal host the cercaries change into the fluke's adult stage which reproduces sexually and then lays eggs that are excreted by the mammal -  the generation cycle is closed when the next snail eats the eggs.
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ants. try not eating anything on your bed, you're leaving crumbs all over.
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I don't know about zombies. I suppose it is very possible but I have never done it. I have talked to a ghost though. Our house used to be haunted the ghost left a couple months ago. It mainly talked to my dad though but 4 of us in the house saw it so i know it isn't my imagination
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LMAO!!!!! thats a funny question! have u seen how a snail eats? its so cute!! worm would probably be a bit too big for a snail to eat, and a worm would be too rough for snails to bite. snails have no teeth...they're cute! annnd yeah, they're vego's!
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i live in Romania. in my country old people believe in vampires and other type of evil creatures like "strigoi" (some creatures that are associated in other cultures with zombies). i honestly don't believe in vampires , but who knows maybe they exist.keep searching maybe you will find something interesting. let me know if you discover a vampire.
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Little Black Ant\n\nLittle Black ants are very small and black, two nodes, with workers all one size, similar to the Pharaoh Ant. Found throughout the U.S., but most often in the east. One of the more common house-infesting ants, Little Black Ants nest in wall voids and under carpets. May build outdoor colonies under rocks, logs, debris and forage to indoor food sources along baseboards and carpet edges. Likes sweets, fats, oils.
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Cool question by the way.\n\nWell flying monkeys would have the advantage of mobility however Zombies would win out right and here is why!\n\nZombies only have to bite their enemies to increase their armies size, one quick bite to the flying monkeys and they will become flying zombie monkeys! Zombies on the other hand can only be killed via the head and as much as the monkeys bite and all that good stuff, it would be more difficult for them to kill the zombies. Zombies just don't want to die lol! \n\nAnd besides, Zombies are such low maintenance, they eat their enemy and the enemy becomes one of them. Monkeys on the other hand have to be fed bananas, got to get them cute little outfits to wear, they have attitude problems and so on, not to mention all that flying poop going everywhere, lol!\n\nSo Zombies would rule I am afraid. \n\nP.S. Zombies already scare the hell out of me, thanks to Dawn of the Dead, I have to watch out when I am driving, now thanks to you, I have to watch the skies! You suck lol!
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larylz.....our zombie God, Jimbo, just simply asked a question about Zombies once....and it sorta stuck. Now there is a whole zombie following. Come join the dark side!\n\nROFL @ "Stage Fright" Monitor!!! Can I do the make-up???\n\nStage numbers:\n\n"I Fall to Pieces"\n"I Can't Take my Eyes off of You"  (literally)\n"Take My Hand"\n"Hokey Pokey" <----big dance number!!! Imagine! "Put your left food in.......put your left foot out......(only they literally toss in body parts!!)\n\n"She's Got Legs!"\n"Under My Skin"\n"Dead Man's Party"\nI think this is going to be a hit Monitor!! I can't wait until opening night!
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What about them?\n\nThere are literally millions of different species of invertebrate, ranging from barely mobile blobs of slime like the Placoderms to mysterious and predatory deep-sea giant squid to parasitic wasps that lay their eggs in caterpillars to caterpillars that eat leaves and get parasitized.\n\nThere is no way to generalize about their behaviour as an entire group.  A giant Australian freshwater lobster has a completely different life than a leaf-cutter ant living high in the forest canopy of the Amazon rain forest or an individual coral polyp forming part of a reef in the Caribbean.
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Oh well, with that information it's easy to identy. \n\nThe  creature is Biplaium kewense. They are commonly known as "worm killers".  See the link below for some photos\n\nAs others have guessed it is a planarian. Worm killers are an exotic pest species imported from Viet Nam in the soil of potted plants. They are carnivorous and hunt earthworms and small insects. They immobilise their prey by coating them with that slime they secrete and then stick a tube into them and suck their insides out.\n\nBTW, well spotted that it uses it's head like a sensor. That is exactly what they do. There are pits under the head that act like a nose that enables the animal to track earthworms, slugs and other prey animals.
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Yes, I have ants in my kitchen.  Set out some bay leaves.  Seems to have made a difference.
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I currently live in a log home and get carpenter ants all the time. I wipe the walls with bleach water as soon as I see one and they don't come back for a year. I try to wipe the walls with bleach water at least 2times during the summer(once to get rid of them and the second time to keep them away).\n\n\nJust thought I would let you know that rmaylaura is interested in ya. I seen a question she asked and she wants you to take notice in her. To bad I was hopin' I caught your eye. I guess too little too late;( Also I have a question for ya. Just click on my profile and it will be under the questions I asked.
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I tried to ask one person who was bitten by carpenter ant and that ant had gone inside his both ears,,,when I told him " would you mind telling me if the ants damaged your ear drum"  he began to signal with his hand......I didn't know why!!!!!!!\nYou could ask him
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There are definitely some ants here in the UK, although obviously not in the numbers found elsewhere. I think it's a climate thing. I remember seeing many ants on a recent trip to the canary islands, which although pretty western, has a far warmer meant temperature than britain.
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Bees and ants originate from wasps(and they are some of natures' most useful creatures)  so yes, they were also the first paper makers, plus they were around before humns so we are an irritation to them!
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http://www.calacademy.org/naturalhistory/ants.html
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Sadly enough I believe that most cockroaches are flesh eating, even the most common of house invaders.  There was a case of a woman who had multiple roach feeding sites found on her body during the autopsy.  Also roaches have been found in peoples ears and also they bite on the ear drum. I know this is all pretty nasty but sometimes the truth is.