My hobby turns creepy

Sigh. Back to normal life. No more long-distance bike rides. Unless I land a job in some exotic location such as Chicago. (Phone interview tomorrow.) Besides, I'm about to do a carb rebuild. All those miles of gasohol seem to have made the carbs rather tired.

By now all three of you readers know that I like to photograph mushrooms. In fact I have a couple in the camera that I haven't posted yet. But this is creepy.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fungus-makes-zombie-ants

It's about a fungus that causes infected ants to search out a certain environment, lock themselves in place, then die. I understand that many biologists are saying that fungi are a third kingdom, not mere plants as I was taught in high school. That makes the article even creepier.

Remind me never to get fungus spores on my antennae.