Ant Queens Practice ‘Hygienic Cannibalism’ Out of Tough Love : ScienceAlert

Ant mothers are the queens of tough love. They simply don’t have time to coddle their sick young.

If a newly hatched black garden ant is exposed to a pathogen, researchers in the US have found the queen will slurp up and gulp down every bit of her offspring’s maggoty little body before it…

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