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Matt Simon

Biography

Matt Simon

Matt Simon is a science writer at Wired magazine, where he specializes in zoology, particularly of the bizarre variety. He is one of just a handful of humans to witness the fabled mating ritual of the axolotl salamander, as is detailed in this here book that he suggests you buy.

Matt Simon

Books by Matt Simon

The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar
by Matt Simon - Animals , Nature, Nonfiction, Science

On a barren seafloor, the pearlfish swims into the safety of a sea cucumber’s anus. To find a meal, the female bolas spider releases pheromones that mimic a female moth, luring male moths into her sticky lasso web. The Glyptapanteles wasp injects a caterpillar with her young, which feed on the victim, erupt out of it, then mind-control the poor (and somehow still living) schmuck into protecting them from predators. These are among the curious critters of THE WASP THAT BRAINWASHED THE CATERPILLAR a jaunt through evolution’s most unbelievable.