Body Invaders

Animals and plants naturally manage to adapt to problems that they face in the survival of their species. If they cannot adapt, then the species faces extinction. I don't think that plants and animals have the capacity to brainstorm solutions as we humans do, but I find that nature has come up with pretty amazing solutions that we can learn or take inspiration from.

This is one of my favorites: a parasitic wasp lays its eggs in the body of a caterpillar that becomes a source of food and protection for the growing larvae until they are old enough to fly off. I think it's a very creative adaptation on the part of nature, even if it is rather brutal and it comes at the expense of another living creature. What scares me though is that the wasp larvae have managed to take over the mind of the caterpillar in addition to its body. Somehow, the caterpillar becomes protective of the larvae that have just chewed their way out of its body. It spins its own silk over the larvae's cocoons as extra protection and fights off other predators until it dies. If mind control exists in animals, how long more until it becomes possible among humans?