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 ...
A (still growing) paper list of Evolutionary Computation (EC) published in some (rather all) top-tier (and also EC-focused) journals and conferences. For EC-focused publications, only ...
Researchers have discovered that in a foraging ant's search for food, it will leave pheromone trails connecting its colony to multiple food sources when they're available, successfully creating the ...
However, in some ants colony germlines are also determined earlier, in the embryonic (egg) stage, begging the question whether that makes somatization of workers as irreversible as somatization of ...
Canada Ant Colony has operated over the past several years, offering ant colonies to museums, film production and the public. Liu has built the business through high school and his early ...
The ant nest serves as the skeleton of the ant superorganism. Similar to a skeleton, the nest expands as the colony grows and requires repair after catastrophic events. We experimentally compared nest ...
"The power of mathematics is that we can devise models that reproduce experimentally observed data and make concrete predictions ... for the daily life of an ant colony, and ants will self ...