And in moments like this I hear a voice whisper "species aren't even real, Susan..."

Species are always changing evolving always in motion. As soon as you have counted and named one species of ant another has arrived, another has found some new variation, some new color, some new behavior, and on the edges our neat discrete categories blur and ebb like watercolors or rainbow trails of oil in a shallow puddle in the sun.

Ants are alive. They do not know their own names.