NAOMI WRITES...

Yesterday we published a letter from our dear friend Naomi West in Texas about ants burying the head of a dead bird. Today, she writes:

This is interesting: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/09/22/how-a-zombifying-decapitating-parasite-finds-its-fire-ant-host/

I forgot to mention that the ants that were covering the bird's head are probably fire ants. I should have looked closely at them, but I think most of our ants are fire ants.

And here is a zombie ant article with pictures

http://io9.com/5252549/headless-fire-ant-zombies-are-your-friends

Naomi