Necrophoresis

Necrophoresis is a sanitation behavior found in social insects – such as ants, bees, wasps, and termites – in which they carry away the dead bodies of members of their colony from the nest or hive area. The term was introduced in 1958 by E.O. Wilson and his colleagues.^[1] The behaviour was however known from before with Pliny making the claim that ants were the only animals other than humans to bury their dead.^[2]