Zombie Ants? How Crazy is This?

This is pretty interesting. Science Now has an article about zombie ants whose brains are taken over by a fungal thing. An excerpt:

Zombies have roamed the Earth for at least 48 million years. Zombie ants, that is. Today, Ophiocordyceps fungi are well known for taking over the minds of ants such as the Camponotus leonardi worker pictured above. Once infected, an ant wanders away from its colony, bites down on a leaf vein near the forest floor, and dies—creating ideal conditions for the fungal fruiting body that sprouts from its corpse. 

I'll admit that bad things happening to ants makes me a little happy, as we have horrible ants in Texas.  Specifically, we have fire ants in Texas. I hope they all get zombied.