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Body Snatchers! Four of Nature’s Freakiest Parasites
Season 13
Episode 6
Zombies, vampires and mind-controlling body snatchers aren’t just found in horror movies. In nature, fungi can control fruit flies, hairworms can hijack crickets, tiny mites feast on honeybees, and parasites can sabotage monarch butterflies’ metamorphosis. Discover the real-life creatures that make nature more terrifying than fiction.
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