Discover the uncanny saga of Temnothorax nylanderi 🐜, the quiet European ant, and its face-off with a mind-controlling parasite. Learn how the intruder manipulates the host, unveiling an alien existence within an ant colony!
Temnothorax nylanderi ants are naturally industrious, unless infected by a tapeworm parasite. Temnothorax nylanderi
As adults, the infected ants’ exoskeletons grow soft and yellow as they become listless and sap the brood’s resources. The other ants in the colony make the situation worse as they feed and groom the infected, which strains the community to the point of shortening the other ants’ life expectancy. When the researchers sampled the infected hemolymph, they found two antioxidants produced by the parasites that seemed to be helping to keep the host alive for years on end. The ants’ bodies swirled with proteins produced by the larvae – they accounted for 7 percent of those found in the hemolymph. The cocktail largely defied categorization as researchers could only pin down the identity of one of the 15 most prominent proteins, an antioxidant molecule.
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