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 filmmakers had to contend with 400 crowd scenes, ranging from 25 to 1000 ants in each shot. In a first for animated film crowds ... However, this was a fatal mistake, as Atta ends up putting ...

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 ...

Given good care, ant colonies can last for years, or even decades (depending on the species). An ant colony consists of a queen and her workers, as well as their brood (eggs, larvae, and pupae, which ...

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 ...

Motion planning and Navigation of AGV/AMR：ROS planner plugin implementation of A*, JPS, D*, LPA*, D* Lite, Theta*, RRT, RRT*, RRT-Connect, Informed RRT*, ACO, PSO ...

eLife Assessment This study presents an important finding that ant nest structure and digging behavior depend on ant age demographics for a ground-dwelling ant species (Camponotus fellah). By asking ...

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 ...

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 ...

it forms just about a third of the Argentine ants’ colony. Covering significant parts of North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, this “megacolony” of Argentine ants is the largest collaborative ...