Mind-controlling fungi create zombie ants
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
The fungus species can infect an ant, take over its brain, and then kill the insect once it moves to a location ideal for the fungi to grow and spread their spores.
All four known fungi species live in Brazil’s Atlantic rain forest, which is rapidly changing due to climate change and deforestation, said study leader David Hughes, an entomologist at Penn State University.
We’re so doomed. You know those changes are never good. Soon the fungi aren’t going to use ants, they’re coming for people!
