Slavemaker

Do you know slavemaker ants?

There are slavemaker ants that go into other nests and steal the pupae, so when the pupae grow into adults, they’re like the slaves of the other ants. And these “slave” they actually do the work that the other ants would have to do themselves.
Maybe you can find an e.g. “Amason ant” if you are interested in this post.

And they can also take over a whole colony.
The queen ant of the slavemakers, after she mates, she’s carrying her own eggs, and what she does is she goes to another colony of another species. She takes over the colony, and those other ants – the “slaves” – start working for her, and then she lays her eggs.

But the colony she invades, it’s already got its own queen.
If she doesn’t cooperate, then the slavemaker ant will kill that queen. And then when she has her own eggs, they become adults, and they become slavemaker ants too.

Why am I post this article?