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<p>Mark Hohn, a novice beekeeper in Kent, holds up a plastic bag with a dead zombie bee and pupae ? two at each end of the bag, on Saturday. Hohn found that his bees are infected with a parasite that causes them to fly at night and lurch around erratically until they die.</p>

<p>Mark Hohn, a novice beekeeper in Kent, holds up a plastic bag with a dead zombie bee and pupae ? two at each end of the bag, on Saturday. Hohn found that his bees are infected with a parasite that causes them to fly at night and lurch around erratically until they die.</p>

September 26, 2012

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'Zombie bees' found in suburban Seattle
September 26, 2012 9 p.m.

'Zombie bees' found in suburban Seattle

SEATTLE (AP) - The infection is as grim as it sounds: "Zombie bees" have a parasite that causes them to fly at night and lurch around erratically until they die.