But she, along with other queens and their global empires, would equal the weight of the seven billion people seething across the planet these days. Additionally, queens and their offspring have lived in large, highly organized cooperative societies – engaging in activities ranging from strategic military warfare to agriculture and animal husbandry – for at least 50 million years. We've been working on it for what, 10,000 maximum? Thanks to their small size, ants were able to become a community and work together to ensure their survival for as long as they existed in the world. Why harm creatures that act like us humans when we know they are healthy?.