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 ...

Have you ever wanted ANOTHER ant farm but you didn't want to deal with the ants, dirt, food, and overall care of an entire real-to-life colony? Well now you can! Featuring, Ant Imperium: Queen's Cut.

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 ...

At the heart of every Chimera Ant colony is the Queen, whose sole mission is to give birth to a king who can lead the powerful empire and procreate with other species until another Queen is born.

Interestingly, certain ant species also grow multiple types of fungi, and some may even share with other ant species! A colony of leafcutter ants can defoliate an entire tree in a single day. ©Matyas ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 are available, successfully creating ...