unknown mold(?) with ant

Wonderful picture! The ant seems to be a Campanotus americanus and the fungus looks more like Beauveria. Nice find.

sorry , under an rock,--> already found it (i must remember: first read everything and then ask? ) :)

very nice, but it's isn't like the cordyceps i have seen so far (most come out of the host with a fruiting-body, but this one looks like mycelium), maybe just a mold which was decaying a dead ant. Can you follow the developement of the white fungi ? (maybe you live not to far away) . nice spot, must you excravate them or where they above the ground n plane sight?

This is a GREAT shot :)

Thanks for the nice comments ChunXingWong, Carlos, and Ivan. :) It was a very odd, interesting find.

Very much like karma ChunXingWong! But that's life, eh? Amazing and detailed spotting, textless. But that's not uncommon in your snapshots! :)

Very good pic

The relationship between ants and fungus are strange.
Some ants feed on fungus.
Some fungus feeds on ants.
It's like a cycle of "Karma"

Thanks Michael! Someone on my blog suggested that it might be a parasitic fungus like Cordyceps... but I don't know that it's found around here (southern Colorado). And it seems to feature a stalk of fungus growing out of the host insect. I looked at Beauveria bassiana, but that doesn't seem quite right either... Anyway I thought it was really interesting.

i couldn't tell whats going on here, but it's a really cool shot