"She noticed a few bees acting strangely — they were buzzing around a nearby light after dark. They were quite frantic about the way they were flying into the light so [she] didn't think that was normal."
Another Inquisitr article on the subject of zombie bees, this time, dated January 31, 2014, states that the good thing about the spread of the infected bees is that it's only localized within the United States. Well, today is August 16, 2016, and as the Metro article reports, the zombie bees have touched down in Canada.
The book and the movie Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton is instructive not only about dinosaurs but about life in general. It suggests that it's unethical to do any kind of cloning or otherwise tinker with life because it can lead to unexpected future disasters. Life, the Crichton epic suggests, has a tendency to break forth in unexpected ways when humans try to contain or suppress it.
However, in the case of zombie bees, humankind did not have to interfere with mother nature to cause a parasitic fly to find a new host in the honey bee. It appears that the tiny Apocephalus borealis figured it out on its own. The larvae of the original infecting fly inside the bee's body eventually turn into shells, thereby causing the infected honey bee to rupture to pieces.
It is a picture so similar to the metamorphosis of an infected human into a full-fledged zombie, which is dramatized in Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and in the Walking Dead TV series. Of course, you will need a microscope to actually figure out the scenario with zombie bees, but does it get any less scary?
So what's in store for the zombie bees now that these insects have migrated to Canada? As Crichton says, life breaks forth the moment you try to contain it. And now that the zombie bees have crossed the border, there's no telling how far these insects can go and what kinds of scenarios to expect.