This is a bit bizarre. I´m in two games where we are fighting monsters inspired by this.
I´m SL Elliot in references 6, 8 & 31. We have these ants and fungi here (Viçosa, Minas Gerais Brazil). I could take you to a 'graveyard' if you were here. We also have a similar thing going on with spiders and fungi. An ex-student of mine is doing her PhD on that. I work on insect-microbe interactions here.
I stopped working on this system because David Hughes is a complete knob.
BTW, in that Nat Geographic video, they used insecticide to make the ant act odd. That was before Raquel Loreto (who was my student as an undergrad and for her masters) worked out how to infect the ants in the lab.