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 ...
3), the regular nest expansion is primarily carried out by young ants. (A, B, & C). Panels represent the nests excavated from the colony maturation (A), fixed demographics young (B), and old (C) nests ...
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 ...
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 ...
“It will lay down a pheromone trail that the other ants can follow back to the food source.” Like wasps and bees, ants are social and live in a colony with one or more queens. That means the workers ...
Imagine living life through the eyes of an ant in an expansive colony, just trying to survive the harsh conditions of the world through changing seasons. This is the experience you’ll find in ...
But SimAnt was a good title with a lot of deep systems in place for managing the ant colony that at the time were pretty revolutionary. Years later, we now have Empire of the Ants, which is available ...