The queen ants included some of the “sought-after” Messor Cephalotes species, commonly known as the Giant African Harvester ant, according to the outlet. “We did not come here to break any laws.

Diacamma rugosum, native to Borneo, is one of the only ant species to lack a queen caste ... was interested in insects as a child growing up in rural Romania, it wasn’t until a few years ...