Ant queens cannibalize their sick offspring and 'recycle' them, new study reveals - Peer2Peer

Ant queens cannibalize their sick offspring and 'recycle' them, new study reveals

Sep 24, 2024

Instead of nurturing their sick young, ant queens eat their infected offspring at the first sign of illness then "recycle" them into energy to produce new eggs, a new study led by the University of Oxford has shown. The findings have been published in Current Biology.

https://phys.org/news/2024-09-ant-queens-cannibalize-sick-offspring.html

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