The latest threat to the beleaguered honeybee? A parasitic fly that turns its prey into a flying zombie. Winston Ross on the ‘flight of the living dead’—and why we should all beware.
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It was a dark December night, which is why the lights were on outside the biology building at San Francisco State University, where a professor named John Hafernik studies bees, butterflies, beetles, and other insects of note.