Mwahahaha... it's time for the Entocast Halloween Special! This time Nick and Liam discuss the freakiest insects they can find. From flesh-eaters to mind-controllers the insect world has a variety of spooky bugs!

Music as always by Kevin MacLeod at Incompetech.com, we use vanishing, this house, and breath, along with the normal disco medusae intro!

Extra halloween-esk music from Bensound.

Kissing bugs - Triatominae

Darwin had Chagas?

Ant wearing assassin bug -  Acanthaspis petax

Acanthaspis petax

By Orionmystery - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0

• Note, for some reason Nick had in his head these guys were from Malaysia, they're actually from East Africa.

David Attenborough discusses A. petax

Study looking at use of ant corpses as disguise from spiders

Ant decapitating flies - Pseudoacteon spp.

Ant decapitating flies in action

Ampulex Compressa

By Muhammad Mahdi Karim - Own work, GFDL 1.2

Emerald Cockroach Wasp - Ampulex compressa

The cockroach wasp attacking it's cockroach host

Zombie ants - infested with Ophiocordyceps unilateralis

David Attenborough and Zombie ants

Human bot flies - Dermatobia hominis

*Warning gruesome content* Bot fly being removed from a girl's scalp

Africanised Honey Bee - Apis mellifera scutellata Lepeletier

Japanese Giant Hornet - Vespa mandarina japonica

Giant hornets destroy a honey bee hive

Ant infested with Ophiocordyceps unilateralis

Native Japanese bees defend against giant hornets

The origin of the Halloween genes

Blog with picture of halloween genes on them

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