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Zombies aren’t just the stuff of nightmares. Explore the fascinating world of real-life insect zombification.

Silver Winner of the 2026 IBPA Book Award for Nature & Environment

Zombies are all around us—insect zombies, that is. In Rise of the Zombie Bugs, Mindy Weisberger explores the eerie yet fascinating phenomenon of real-life zombification in the insect class and among other invertebrates. Zombifying parasites reproduce by rewriting their victims’ neurochemistry, transforming them into the \