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Killing the weakest ant queen
Honey ant queens work together for the first year, but only one honey ant queen can rule the nest after the first summer. Worker ants pick on the weaker queens - at first, they stop feeding them but, eventually, they rip them to pieces. The Natural World team were the first to film this behaviour in this species.
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