Parasite infested "zombie bees" have been spotted for the first time in the Northeast, ABC News reported Thursday.

The abnormal bees were first seen on the West Coast, infected with parasites that make the insects act drunk and confused before killing them.

"Thy fly around in a disoriented way, get attracted to light, and then fall down and wander around in a way that 's sort of reminiscent of zombies in the movies," John Hafernik, a biology professor at San Francisco State University, told ABC News.

"Sometimes we've taken to calling [it], when they leave their hives, 'the flight of the living dead.' "

Hafernik's team at the university confirmed in October 2013 the infected bees have made it to the Northeast. A Burlington, Vermont beekeeper found his honeybees had the parasites, making it the first time zombie bees were seen east of South Dakota, ABC News reported.

"I just thought, great, one more thing that the poor honeybee has to deal with," Anthony Cantrell, the beekeeper, told ABC News. Cantrell first noticed dead bees outside his home. Cantrell, a member of the Vermont Beekeepers Association, then came across ZomBeeWatch.org, a website run by Hafernick and his co-workers.

Hafernik was the first to discover the sick bees in California in 2008.

A fly, the Apocephalus borealis, infects by laying its eggs on the bee. The eggs cause the bee to act senseless, followed by the bee's death within minutes after they hatch, ABC News reported.

"It's sort of a combination of zombies and aliens mixed together," Hafernik told ABC News.

The fly preys on European honeybees, which are common in the U.S. There have been confirmed cases of zombie bees in South Dakota, Washington State, Oregon and California. Yet there is no indication that bees across the nation are in danger from the parasite, ABC News reported.