Ants are everywhere, with an estimated 20 quadrillion, that's 20 followed by fifteen zeros, surviving on the planet. That’s around 2.5 million ants for each of us humans.
But what you know, or think you know, about how ants manage to be quite so abundant and organised might not be quite right.
Philip Clark is joined on Nightlife by Associate Professor Tanya Latty from the University of Sydney, with an intriguing discussion about all things entomological.
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Leaf-cutting ants carry pieces of leaf along a rope in the Butterfly Centre in London, England.
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