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 ...
However, these clever ants carefully manage its use to prevent the mold from developing a defense or resistance to it. Major ants are the largest of them all. Like their name, major ants serve as the ...
An ant colony consists of a queen and her workers ... Make sure there is always access to water inside the nest. Keep the farm clean to prevent mold. Most ants will designate a waste area; simply ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...