Larvae of other ant species spin individual protective cocoons ... The rest of the time, the queen's offspring all become nonbreeding females—a fierce sisterhood of near clones that patrol ...

The Argentine ant is one of the most invasive species of ants, with its sprawling supercolonies locked in an endless battle ...

There are more than 15,000 known species on the planet, and they've all evolved different skills in their respective habitats. Ants can live in soil, in trees, below ground, in leaf matter, ...

If you weighed every human and all the ants, the scales would balance ... fungal strains or pests from their precious crop. Other ant species herd aphid 'cattle', which they eat and also milk ...