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 ...

Workers shown here tend to a queen ... ants place throughout the structure to fight against bacterial and fungal pathogens. An ant carries an unfortunate honeybee it scavenged back to the colony ...

"That's what it smells like when you keep ant colonies," Frank says. Carpenter ants, leaf-cutter ants and giant ants live in glass bowls ... to muscle cells, the queen ant to the ovaries or ...

The pupae are enclosed in cocoons and are often misnamed "ant eggs." A colony includes one queen and several thousands of workers. Only the queen produces eggs. Each worker can live 4 to 5 years. Many ...

Ant nests (hills) can be broken up with a fork and treated with boiling or cold water or ant powder. Ant nests can exist for many years, with the worker ants excavating the nest, feeding the queen and ...

Fire ants often live in huge colonies. There are thousands of them ... The ants will take the gel back to their nest and feed to the queen and larvae. The whole colony starts to collapse in hours. The ...

There are also soldier termites with large heads and jaws that protect the workers and defend the colony. The king and queen of the colony ... and damp wood termites live in decaying wood with ...

In a quiet fallback, the Wasps founded gilded ghettos—schools and suburbs, country clubs and summer colonies ... that the queen and her maids of honor last year had to be covered with a plastic ...

Points of Difference Termite Swarmers Ant Swarmers Size of wings Hind wings are approximately the same size as the forewings. Hind wings are much smaller than the forewings. Each subterranean termite ...

Ants have existed for 120 million years on the planet and have developed a hierarchy in their colonies that includes worker and queen ants and, even, slave ants, Ms. Annagiri said. Ants also ...