Stumbling onto headlines like this makes my whole day.

Parasitic flies turn fire ants into zombies

Apparently, these tiny flies infect fire ants, move in and set up house...since they're parasitic and all, and naturally they eat the ant's brains.

The ant--without a brain--survives and walks around for 4 days.---until its head falls off.  I'm not really sure why the head falls off...but it's cool anyway.  Then the flies leave the ant host and grab one of his buddies.

What a great twist on the classic zombie story.

Of course there would have to be nanobots and an evil scientist bent on world domination...

Hmmm.

Aren't you glad you opened this blog today?

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Parasitic flies @ Yahoo news