I'm Laura Larkin, and I work for a wildlife charity called Bug Life.

I'm Kareem Valhead and I also work for Bug Life.

It

looks right, doesn't it?

Dish the dirt.

Well, indeed, the phenomenal success of ants isn't just due to their cooperation.

They can also be very manipulative.

Now, this is particularly in the case of a new queen founding a colony because a new queen, when she leaves the nest in her mating flight, she's got her stored sperm, she's ready to found a new colony.

She hides herself away in a little crevice.

She starts laying her eggs.

But the difficulty she has is that raising the new brood is so intensive that she hasn't got time to go out and forage.

My God.