"Humans have relied on antibiotics for less than a century, yet many pathogens have already evolved resistance, giving rise to 'superbugs.' Ants, by contrast, have been using antibiotics for tens of ...

There are 20 quadrillion ants on Earth —that’s 2.5 million ants for every human. Known ant species (members of the family Formicidae) number over 12,000, and some experts estimate upwards of 20,000 ...

When an ant pupa has a deadly, incurable infection, it sends out a signal that tells worker ants to unpack it from its cocoon and disinfect it, a process that results in its death. (Christopher D.