{"id":96932,"date":"2019-10-02T13:02:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T20:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/crypt-keeper-wasps-can-control-the-minds-of-7-other-species-of-wasp"},"modified":"2019-10-02T13:02:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T20:02:36","slug":"crypt-keeper-wasps-can-control-the-minds-of-7-other-species-of-wasp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/crypt-keeper-wasps-can-control-the-minds-of-7-other-species-of-wasp","title":{"rendered":"Crypt-keeper wasps can control the minds of 7 other species of wasp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/crypt-keeper-wasps-can-control-the-minds-of-7-other-species-of-wasp2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Michael Le Page<\/p>\n<p>A recently discovered parasitic wasp appears to have extraordinary mind-controlling abilities \u2013 it can alter the behaviour of at least seven other species.<\/p>\n<p>Many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn22599-parasite-makes-mice-fearless-by-hijacking-immune-cells\/\">parasites manipulate the behaviour of their victims<\/a> in extraordinary ways. For instance, sacculina barnacles invade crabs and make them care for barnacle larvae as if they were their own offspring. If the host crab is male, the parasite turns them female.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Michael Le Page A recently discovered parasitic wasp appears to have extraordinary mind-controlling abilities \u2013 it can alter the behaviour of at least seven other species. Many parasites manipulate the behaviour of their victims in extraordinary ways. For instance, sacculina barnacles invade crabs and make them care for barnacle larvae as if they were [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}