Rise Of The Zombees Analysis

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What Caused Scientists to Think Honeybees Turned into ZomBees?

Amy Barth’s purpose in writing “Rise of the ZomBees!” is to recount that scientists think bees are turned into ZomBees. John Hafernik, the biologist, spotted bees walking in circles on the sidewalk outside of his lab. Because of this strange behavior, Hafernik put them in a container. John Hafernik discovered that the bees have died in the container and with them were tiny brown pupae. Hafernik figured out that when a female zombie fly lands onto a honey bee, the fly starts to inject fly eggs into the bee. The honeybees showed signs of strange zombie-like behavior when they get injected with the fly eggs.

I agree with their belief in how the bee’s behaviors are related to zombie

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