Adventurers plops, ripe for the grabbing

You are a fungus. Your job is to infect an ant, take over her brain, force her to climb to a high twig, and clamp her jaws down on it, so you will be in the best position to release your spores, which will do the same thing all over again.

But what will you do when the ants wise up to your ways and start killing & burying your hosts to prevent the spread?