How to make a zombie cockroach : Nature News
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/071129/full/news.2007.312.html
"Researchers discover how wasps' venom makes roaches their slaves."
'Mythbusters' test seeks to determine if cockroaches could survive a nuclear holocaust
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/tch/local/v-printer/story/9390500p-9303503c.html
"A team from the Discovery Channel's Mythbusters is at the Hanford nuclear reservation this week to get to the bottom of the nuclear survival myth."