Ant left the UK to move to Dubai last year he was axed from SAS: Who Dares Wins in 2021, heading off to Australia to do a foreign format of the programme. Ant's rep has been contacted for comment.

CHILD #2:Queen ant. ADAM:That's the queen ... Trinidad has been rescued and re-housed in a giant man-made nest in the UK, allowing an in-depth study into their normally hidden world.

NARRATOR:'In a leafcutter colony there is a queen ant, and she is much bigger than the other ants. And her job is to lay eggs. NARRATOR:'Then there are lots of different types of worker ant.

The queen lays the eggs while female workers look after the queen ... They are recognised by their three fairly distinct body parts. There are about 60 species of ant in the UK, and they all live in ...

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 ...