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Zombie Ants?
What will they think of next?
Graybush is too lazy to figure out how to post anything so he sent me this:
How Zombie Ants Lose Their Minds
- Research in a Thai rain forest has shown the fungi, a species of Ophiocordyceps, forces an infected ant to wander drunkenly over the forest's low leaves before clamping its jaws around the main vein on the underside of a leaf in an ant zombie graveyard.
My only question is, why isn't this a video game yet?
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What do you expect I'm a manager. I delegate. And hey...... where's my coffee!
More pictures here:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/03/pictures/110303-zombie-a...
And an equally horrifying scenario in South America where a fly injects its egg into a fire ant, which turns into a zombie larva incubator, ultimately becoming decapitated:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/photogalleries/zombie-ants/