Tiny ants enslaved inside acorns across the northeastern United States could be resisting their captors with a covert army of killer nannies.
About the size of newspaper commas, ants in the genus Temnothorax fall prey to a marginally larger ant species that doesn’t do its own housework.
NANNY SABOTAGE Members of a species of ants captured to work as slaves rebel against their captors by destroying the pupae they were enslaved to nurture.
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