A head at the top, a thorax in the middle ... NARRATOR:'Inside their colony, the ants are very busy. Everyone has a job to do. If they don't do their job, then other things in the colony don ...
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 ...
The mound is really the top of an enormous underground structure ... as it's properly called — looks impossibly small. And yet, a colony of up to 250,000 ants call it home.
Ant colonies are so tightly knit and efficient, they can pass useful knowledge between generations, which some experts believe constitutes a colony “memory.” This kind of communal knowledge is ...