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Bees Surface in the Northeast - Yahoo
Zombie bees today... Zombie humans tomorrow ???"They fly around in a disoriented way, get attracted to light, and then fall down and wander around in a way that's sort of reminiscent of zombies in the movies," Hafernik said. "Sometimes we've taken to calling [it], when they leave their hives, 'the flight of the living dead.'"
The professor accidentally discovered the zombie bees in California in 2008, and since then cases have been reported in Oregon, Washington state, California and South Dakota, he said.
The effect starts with a fly called the Apocephalus borealis, which latches onto European honeybees ? common across the United States ? and lays eggs in the bees that eventually hatch and wreak havoc on their hosts, Hafernik said.
"It's sort of a combination of zombies and aliens mixed together," he said.