This is not an ant with fancy antennae. This is an ant that is infected with a Cordiceps fungus. This ant was infected and quite soon thereafter was completely taken over by the fungus and commanded to climb. The fungus had the ant climb to an optimum height for spore spread and then killed it and fruited out. Those “antennae” are in fact fungal fruiting bodies.
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