Each Argentine ant colony has multiple queens, allowing the colony to expand rapidly both in population and territorial control. Today, native Californian ant species like harvester ants and ...

Ants are known to kill intruders when they are detected to protect the colony. To avoid attacks, ant crickets use various ...

Parasitic crickets survive in dangerous ant colonies using genius dodging and distancing moves while staying hidden in safe ...

And yet, a colony of up to 250,000 ... Their mother, the queen, roams around the nest while laying 1,500 eggs a day! Now, all those baby ants need to live in a narrow temperature range to grow ...

It’s good to be the queen—the ant queen, that is—because mating ... don’t just hunt food—they farm it. They often live alongside colonies of aphids, which secrete a substance called ...

NARRATOR:'Do you know what these tiny little creatures are? Yes, they're ants! NARRATOR:'There are lots of different types of ant, NARRATOR:'and they live all over the world. These ones are from ...

Unlike the other members of her colon, who can live for only a few days to about a year, the queen has been known to stick around, laying eggs and controlling the ant colony for up to 15 years.

Uncover the surprising world of ant behavior and memory. Discover how tiny ant brains can hold lasting grudges against rival colonies.

while worker ants typically only live for a few months. This extraordinary longevity allows the queen to produce thousands of offspring during her lifetime, ensuring the colony’s continuity.

Researchers have identified the behavioral strategies that parasitic cricket species employ to infiltrate and inhabit host ant colonies. Their research demonstrates that these crickets use 'distancing ...

Ants live in a caste system, where individuals have specific jobs. The queen lays the eggs while female workers look after the queen, eggs and larvae. They also gather food, enlarge the nest and ...

ADAM:'Our ant colony will only ever have one queen living in it ... what's gonna happen is that the workers that are there are gonna live their lives but there's gonna be no one to replace ...