Video: Ants mate with half-eaten, dying queen

Saturday, March 24, 2012 - 12:03 in Biology & Nature

We can't all be picky about our mates, and ants even less so. A new video taken by Adrián Skippy Purkart, a wildlife photographer from Slovakia, shows the ants swarming around repeatedly mating with their dying queen as a crab spider is consuming her head first. Sexy!

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