"Did you know that ants live to be 30 years old?"
I read this in a magazine piece.
No way.
That would make ants years older than Shawn Mendes.
Have ants in my driveway lived longer at this house than I have?
I'm off to multiple sources on the web.
Ant Queens can live for up to 30 years, and workers live from 1 to 3 years. Males, however, are more transitory, being quite short-lived and surviving for only a few weeks. Ant Queens are estimated to live 100 times as long as solitary insects of a similar size.
A Queen ant Lasius niger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) has the longest recorded adult life of any insect: 28¾ years in captivity.
Mendes is 22.
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