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Insect immunity to extracellular microbes relies largely on the TOLL and IMD pathways. In this issue of Immunity, Goto et al. (2018) report that the IKKβ-Relish module of the IMD pathway hitches up the intracellular sensor STING to activate antiviral responses in Drosophila.