A queen may live years ... critter spreading itself through the trees as a thin film." As predators, weaver ants hunt practically every kind of invertebrate big enough for a meal—and so ...

In the aftermath of the raid, Sung Jin-Woo extracts the Ant Queen’s shadow, but her strength turns out much weaker than ...

This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s good to be the queen—the ant queen, that is—because mating does wonders for her immune system. When exposure ...