Special thanks to Levi for alerting me to the news article titled "Parasitic Flies turn Fire Ants into Zombies".
Apparently the "infected" wander mindlessly away from their mounds until their heads fall off.
However, my favorite part of the article reads, "making zombies out of fire ants is a good thing". It's population control.
God forbid the population of fire ants grows too large. Who knows what could happen. They could become more intelligent, build cities, start religions, strip mine the earth, invent atomic weapons, pollute the oceans and the air, and establish military torture prisons in Cuba. Then the more intelligent of the fire ants might create vaccines, medicines, and antibodies to overcome natural population control and they would continue to flourish until all natural resources were drained. Can you imagine what could happen if a species' population was allowed to grow too large?!
Well, it's time to drive home from work and I wanna beat that rush hour traffic.
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