Ant Queen Digs

(2018) - 15 min

Only 2% of ant queens successfully found new colonies. The initial challenge is to select a suitable location for the new colony. Then a newly-mated queen ant must tunnel down into the ground, where she will lay her first batch of eggs. Once underground, she'll probably never see daylight again. The ant queen will devote the rest of her life to producing offspring and regulating aspects of the colony through selective reproduction.