Flies Captured on Video Turning Fire Ants Into Zombies

"The skillful and ghoulish attack of parasitoid phorid flies on fire ants, filmed at the Brackenridge Field Lab, was recently featured in the PBS nature documentary, Supernature - Wild Flyers. The footage shows the flight skills of these tiny flies as they launch an attack on living fire ants; ultimately rendering them into zombie-like hosts for the fly's larvae.A BBC film crew spent two weeks filming the sequences at the field lab last spring. The high speed, high magnification footage has provided researchers with never-before-seen views of the fly's aerial attack."

From http://patch.com/texas/downtownaustin/never-seen-footage-shows-parasitic-fly-turning-fire-ants-zombies ...
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