Zombie Ants Controlled By Parasitic Fungus

I agree, that is totally mad, it seems quite a complex form of control to make them find a perfect height and angled leaf and then bite, how does something like that ever evolve. how is there a combination of chemicals that makesd Ants act like this???

Crazy, But it isn't enough for me to start going to church. :D
 
This was on Blue Planet, it wasn't just ants it infected but a load of other bugs aswell. Was interesting to see how the unfected ants behaved against the infected ant (ripped them to bits and disposed them).

Edit: I mean Planet Earth
 
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Rybo89 said:
This was on Blue Planet, it wasn't just ants it infected but a load of other bugs aswell. Was interesting to see how the unfected ants behaved against the infected ant (ripped them to bits and disposed them).

Edit: I mean Planet Earth
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Aye, I remember seeing this on the Jungles episode on planet earth. There are cordyceps fungi that attack many different types of insect, but each strain of fungus only targets a single species. Came with creepy music, too.
 
"It's a fabulously complex organism," Hughes told the Guardian. "There is a beauty to the whole thing, whether it is the chemicals at work that take over the ant, or the spores which try one strategy and then another to find a host on the forest floor."
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There's always one, isn't there. It's like the insectophile version of Ash.
 
Are these the andts on BBC life that grow the tumor out their heads? Its only a form of controlling them when they overpopulate. If it didnt happen the ants would destroy everything
 
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