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And now, Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher.

So we have all had our issues with ants, A-N-T-S, not A-U-N-T-S, although some of us may have had issues with aunts as well.

But I'm going to talk specifically about ants.

All right.

So there's a new study now that talks about this parasitic ant queen that can manipulate

a colony into killing its queen using chemical warfare.

Oh, okay.

So the move allows the invading queen to take control and trick workers into raising her offspring until they die.

Now, ants have been known to commit matricide, killing their queen, who is their biological mother, by the way, including in cases when a queen is no longer fertile.

There have also been documented cases of regicide when an invading queen kills another

by beheading her or biting her throat.

However, yesterday a study was released on how a new, mated Lusius oriental queen can trick Lassius flavus worker ants into doing the dirty work.

The invading queen sprays the host queen with a liquid from her abdomen.

That's got to be fun.

Believed to be formic acid.

Masking the host queen's scent and causing her daughters to see her as an intruder.

The worker ants then descended on their queen mother, killing her in mass.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Game of throw. queen mother killing her in mass.

Game of Thrones is in real life.

I mean, ants just have been driving me crazy for years.

I lived in Florida.

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