This marks the fourth home Christina and Ant have lived in during a whirlwind year, but it’s the place where they’re planning to settle down to raise their baby boy, who is due in November.

This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s good to be the queen—the ant queen, that is—because mating does wonders for her immune system. When exposure ...

The Queen was never captured in public with a pregnant belly. Why? Well, because of the strict taboos that existed at the time. The Queen’s pregnancies were not publicly acknowledged.