and more green ant bites than you could humanly count, but it all paid off! Vicky was announced as the new Queen of the Jungle, ahead of runner-up George Shelley. Taking the figurative bronze ...

This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s good to be the queen—the ant queen, that is—because mating does wonders for her immune system. When exposure ...

A queen may live years ... then wend your way down a stem to another curling green surface. "Weaver ants weigh so little, they're scarcely affected by gravity," Moffett says.