Parasite makes host bodyguard

Here's a great article provided by C. Nolan, that might just directly relate to a future project of Pope Siglericus XXX. Fascinating stuff!

Parasite turns host into bodyguard

A new study de­scribes yet an­oth­er strange case of ap­par­ently par­a­site-induced be­hav­ioral changes: a crea­ture that turns its host in­to its own, su­i­cid­ally de­vot­ed bod­y­guard.

Af­ter the par­a­sit­ic wasp Glypta­pan­te­les com­pletes an early life stage as an un­in­vit­ed guest in the body of a cat­er­pil­lar, the cat­er­pil­lar ex­hibits stun­ning changes, ac­cord­ing to re­search­ers. It stops eat­ing and stays close by the wasps, which by then are co­coons. It wraps them in a pro­tec­tive web of silk and de­fends them against ap­proach­ing preda­tors with vi­o­lent, re­lent­less head-swings.

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