This is exactly what the Bush/Cheney Parasite did to America.
http://loom.corante.com/archives/2006/02/02/the_wisdom_of_parasites.php
As an adult, Ampulex compressa seems like your normal wasp, buzzing about and mating. But things get weird when it's time for a female to lay an egg. She finds a cockroach to make her egg's host, and proceeds to deliver two precise stings.................
The zombie roach crawls where its master leads, which turns out to be the wasp's burrow.