Tales from the Ant World Quotes

“For ants, service to the colony is everything. As individual workers approach natural death, it benefits the colony more for the old to spend their last days in dangerous occupations. The Darwinian logic is clear: for the colony, the aged have little to offer and are dispensable.”
― Edward O. Wilson, Tales from the Ant World

“Adult male ants are pitiful creatures by comparison. They have wings and can fly, huge eyes and genitalia, and small brains. They do no work for their mother or sisters, and have only one function in life: to inseminate virgin queens from other colonies during nuptial flights.”
― Edward O. Wilson, Tales from the Ant World