NARRATOR:'In a leafcutter colony there is a queen ant ... Detailed, close up images of leafcutter ants clearly show three different parts to their body, the head, thorax and abdomen and six ...

Adult gynes (virgin queens) normally have higher body mass ... the superorganismal colonies of ants are strikingly analogous to metazoan bodies because queen and workers function as germline ...

Both species are small in stature, but hundreds of their queen ants can inhabit ... 35 types of pheromones from the body of the Japanese carpenter ant, which inhabit almost all areas of Japan ...

The fire ants exploit this phenomenon to protect their queen. The larvae ... they create a structure that "would take 400 times their body weight to break" said Markham. He added that these ...