highwaystar101 on 09 March 2011
This kind of thing has been knowabout for years.
In fact, there's a type of insect (I forget the name) where they lay their eggs in the ant, and when it hatches into a larva it attaches itself to the brain (somehow) and controls the ant's movements. It then swells the ants abdomen up to many times its original size and it makes it red in colour so it looks like a berry. Then an unsuspecting bird eats the ant thinking it's a berry with the parasite larva inside and then the bird too becomes a host (although not controlled, the larva just lives there).
Talk about grizly death for the ant.
