This bit was not too much of a stretch of the imagination.. "The uninfected workers in parasitized colonies, they realized, were laboring harder. Strained by th

This bit was not too much of a stretch of the imagination.. "The uninfected workers in parasitized colonies, they realized, were laboring harder. Strained by the additional burden of their wormed-up nestmates, they seemed to be shunting care away from their queen. They were dying sooner than they might have if the colonies had remained parasite-free. At the community level, the ants were exhibiting signs of stress,"