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 ...

Crickets are parasites—for some ant colonies. The species of ant crickets from the Myrmecophilus genus can infiltrate ant colonies, despite the potentially lethal defences that ants have ...

The engineering and defensive skills of red wood ants help the endangered species transcend its small stature in the natural world.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Many male flying ants die immediately after mating, and not all queen ... the entire colony. As an alternative, insecticidal dust can be injected into the area where the ants live.

Parasitic ants parasitize other ants using ... feed their enslavers, care for the queen, and defend the nest against threats. If the colony moves to a new location, the slaves carry their ...

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 ...

Animals that live in ant colonies, known as "ant guests," exploit their hosts' resources. However, this behavior carries a significant risk because ants ruthlessly exterminate intruders upon ...

The findings are detailed in a study recently published in the journal Communications Biology. Interloper animals that live in ant colonies are known as ant guests. These include some species of ...