Argentine ant workers with brood (IMAGE)

Institute of Science and Technology Austria

Argentine ant workers with brood

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Unlike humans, ants react immediately to pathogen contamination and not only to the later-developing symptoms of a disease. Nestmates efficiently groom off infectious particles from colony members.

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Sina Metzler, Roland Ferrigato/ISTA

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