This is some weird crap!

very amazing. I think I've seen it on Planet Earth before. it's also cool how inteligent ants can be.

Ah, good ol' entomopathogenic fungi. Gotta love 'em. There's a few pictures of a variety of these fungi in one of the buildings on campus where the Ent department used to be.

By the way, S111, I wouldn't describe ants as intelligent -- I describe them as a very efficient organism. (Or at least functioning like one -- this example is sort of like how a multicellular organism tags and destroys cancerous cells before they doom the entire entity.)

i have seen weirder! that thing that makes snails turn into "zombies" with the strobe lights in their eyes!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EWB_COSUXMw

Aren't parasites awesome?

There's one that makes crickets drown themselves.

I remember watching that. It's one way of keeping the population under control control!

The fungus might be devastating to it's host but I think they are kind of beautiful