How do insects general “health” work?

Question

Do they have illness or disease? Can a butterfly get a “cold”?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Recently I saw an article about how ants tend to injuries. They have special ways to clean wounds depending on where they are, up to and including ways to amputate damaged legs. I didn’t even think about that— that ants can get infected cuts and so on. But they can, and they seem aware of it!