{"id":12647,"date":"2025-10-21T09:13:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T07:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antcube.shop\/?p=12647"},"modified":"2026-02-10T12:41:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T11:41:50","slug":"how-ants-deal-with-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antcube.shop\/en\/2025\/10\/21\/how-ants-deal-with-the-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"How ants deal with the dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n  <div id=\"page-header-618953019\" class=\"page-header-wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"page-title dark featured-title\">\n\n        <div class=\"page-title-bg\">\n      <div class=\"title-bg fill bg-fill\"\n        data-parallax-container=\".page-title\"\n        data-parallax-background\n        data-parallax=\"-\">\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"title-overlay fill\"><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"page-title-inner container align-center text-center flex-row-col medium-flex-wrap\" >\n            <div class=\"title-content flex-col\">\n        <div class=\"title-breadcrumbs pb-half pt-half\"><nav class=\"woocommerce-breadcrumb breadcrumbs uppercase\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">Home<\/nav><\/div>      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n     \n<style>\n#page-header-618953019 .title-bg {\n  background-image: url(https:\/\/antcube.shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ant-and-death.00_02_12_10.Still001.png);\n}\n#page-header-618953019 .featured-title {\n  background-color: rgb(94, 125, 52);\n}\n<\/style>\n  <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  \n\n<div class=\"video video-fit mb\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How ants deal with the dead \u2013 A documentary about ant burial rituals and why do ants carry dead ants\" width=\"1020\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fk-xPV6hpmY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When you think of ants, you might picture endless trails carrying food, or perhaps fierce battles with invaders. 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Unlike ours, these aren\u2019t about mourning or ritual. For ants, they\u2019re practical: a way to manage disease risk and keep the colony clean.<\/p>\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_1569668890\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1020\" height=\"555\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/antcube.shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-21-at-08-59-58-How-ants-deal-with-the-dead-%E2%80%93-A-documentary-about-ant-burial-rituals-and-why-do-ants-carry-dead-ants-YouTube.png?fit=1020%2C555&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#image_1569668890 {\n  width: 45%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s more to the story.<\/p>\n<p>Some ants that become sick don\u2019t &#8211; even can\u2019t &#8211; remain among their sisters. They leave the colony on their own. This self-removal is a behavioral adaptation to limit the spread of contagion. It\u2019s survival through sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s impressive is that when an ant dies, her body doesn\u2019t instantly trigger attention from her sisters. For a day or two, the corpse is often left untouched. It\u2019s as if the colony doesn\u2019t \u201cknow\u201d the ant is dead\u2026 until that changes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"container section-title-container\" ><h2 class=\"section-title section-title-normal\"><b aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/b><span class=\"section-title-main\" style=\"color:rgb(104, 161, 39);\">The Smell of Death: Oleic Acid as a Signal<\/span><b aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/b><\/h2><\/div>\n\n<p>One of the classic stories in myrmecology (the study of ants) is how they detect death chemically. Edward O. Wilson and colleagues discovered that when a dead ant\u2019s body begins to break down, it releases <b>oleic acid<\/b>, a fatty acid that acts like a chemical death notice.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Wilson performed a striking experiment: if you dab a live ant with oleic acid, her colony treats her as if she\u2019s dead and carries her off. In ant society, smelling like a corpse is the same as being one.<\/p>\n<p>So, the delay in corpse removal isn\u2019t neglect. It\u2019s chemistry: the body must degrade slightly before it begins emitting this \u201cdead ant\u201d signal.<\/p>\n<div class=\"container section-title-container\" ><h2 class=\"section-title section-title-normal\"><b aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/b><span class=\"section-title-main\" style=\"color:rgb(104, 161, 39);\">When Death Spreads Danger<\/span><b aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/b><\/h2><\/div>\n\n<p>We often assume ants remove dead nestmates just for hygienic purposes, to prevent diseases from spreading. But a landmark study raised doubts about that assumption.<\/p>\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_983444048\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1020\" height=\"558\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/antcube.shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-21-at-09-00-51-How-ants-deal-with-the-dead-%E2%80%93-A-documentary-about-ant-burial-rituals-and-why-do-ants-carry-dead-ants-YouTube.png?fit=1020%2C558&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#image_983444048 {\n  width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-980830200\">\n\n\n\t<div id=\"col-458112661\" class=\"col medium-6 small-12 large-6\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In experiments where researchers introduced a fungus-infected dead ant into a colony of <i>Camponotus castaneus<\/i>, about <b>84 %<\/b> of the ants eventually became infected just by contact with the cadaver. The entire colony was at risk. This outcome suggests that simply removing corpses is not always enough to stop disease spread.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1307454476\" class=\"col medium-6 small-12 large-6\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_376227286\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"735\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/antcube.shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-21-at-09-01-30-How-ants-deal-with-the-dead-%E2%80%93-A-documentary-about-ant-burial-rituals-and-why-do-ants-carry-dead-ants-YouTube.png?fit=735%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#image_376227286 {\n  width: 72%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Still, some species rely heavily on grooming behavior. By licking and cleaning themselves and each other, they can reduce pathogen transmission by up to 70%. Infected ants may also isolate themselves, reducing contact.<\/p>\n<div class=\"container section-title-container\" ><h2 class=\"section-title section-title-normal\"><b aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/b><span class=\"section-title-main\" style=\"color:rgb(104, 161, 39);\">Funeral Styles Across Species<\/span><b aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/b><\/h2><\/div>\n\n<p>The behaviors ants employ around death are surprisingly varied. A comprehensive review of 55 ant species classified their \u201cfuneral rituals\u201d into several categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Necrophoresis<\/b> (the removal of dead ants) \u2014 practiced by ~32 species (\u2248 60 %)<br \/><br \/><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Intraspecific necrophagy<\/b> (eating dead nestmates) \u2014 ~11 species (\u2248 20 %)<br \/><br \/><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Burial or covering corpses<\/b> \u2014 ~4 species (\u2248 7 %)<br \/><br \/><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Avoidance<\/b> (simply staying away from dead ants) \u2014 ~3 species (\u2248 5 %)<br \/><br \/><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Self-euthanasia<\/b> (ill ants leaving to die apart from nest) \u2014 rare, but present in some species<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_1158786030\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1020\" height=\"570\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/antcube.shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-21-at-09-02-07-How-ants-deal-with-the-dead-%E2%80%93-A-documentary-about-ant-burial-rituals-and-why-do-ants-carry-dead-ants-YouTube.png?fit=1020%2C570&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#image_1158786030 {\n  width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some combine multiple strategies. For instance, <i>Solenopsis invicta<\/i> may carry, bury, or sometimes avoid corpses entirely.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/260715254_The_funeral_ways_of_social_insects_Social_strategies_for_corpse_disposal?utm_source=chatgpt.com\"> ResearchGate+1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other species, like <i>Formica polyctena<\/i>, will both remove and compost corpse remains outside the nest rather than consuming them outright.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/260715254_The_funeral_ways_of_social_insects_Social_strategies_for_corpse_disposal?utm_source=chatgpt.com\"> ResearchGate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a more recent study on <i>Formica polyctena<\/i>, researchers found that ants could distinguish corpses with different risks of infection and alter their handling behavior. For example, during periods of starvation, cannibalistic necrophagy (eating dead nestmates) increased but only when the corpses were judged \u201csafe enough\u201d to consume.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-020-74870-8?utm_source=chatgpt.com\"> Nature<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"container section-title-container\" ><h2 class=\"section-title section-title-normal\"><b aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/b><span class=\"section-title-main\" style=\"color:rgb(104, 161, 39);\">Sacrifice, Combat, and Self-Destruction<\/span><b aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/b><\/h2><\/div>\n\n<p>Ant societies often push individuals to the limit. Some soldier ants throw themselves into battle, laying down their lives to protect the colony.<\/p>\n<p>Even more extreme: certain species perform suicidal defense tactics. They may rupture themselves to spray toxins, block entrances, or even explode to stop intruders. Such self-sacrifice may sound extreme, but in ecological terms, it\u2019s shaped by <b>kin selection<\/b>: the principle that sacrificing oneself can benefit closely related colony members, and thus propagate shared genes.<\/p>\n<p>Similar behaviors appear in other social animals too (wolves, lions, etc.). It\u2019s a theme: the group over the individual, when the stakes are high.<\/p>\n<div class=\"container section-title-container\" ><h2 class=\"section-title section-title-normal\"><b aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/b><span class=\"section-title-main\" style=\"color:rgb(104, 161, 39);\">What We Still Don\u2019t Know<\/span><b aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/b><\/h2><\/div>\n\n<p>Ant societies often push individuals to the limit. Some soldier ants throw themselves into battle, laying down their lives to protect the colony.<\/p>\n<p>Even more extreme: certain species perform suicidal defense tactics. They may rupture themselves to spray toxins, block entrances, or even explode to stop intruders. Such self-sacrifice may sound extreme, but in ecological terms, it\u2019s shaped by <b>kin selection<\/b>: the principle that sacrificing oneself can benefit closely related colony members, and thus propagate shared genes.<\/p>\n<p>Similar behaviors appear in other social animals too (wolves, lions, etc.). 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