This is pretty cool! Basically, the ants are turned into zombies! The flies "dive-bomb" the fire ants and lay eggs. The maggot that hatches inside the ant eats away at the brain, and the ant starts ...

Phorid flies constitute a diverse assemblage of small dipterans, several species of which have evolved as specialised parasitoids of ant hosts. These flies locate and oviposit on or within individual ...