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 ...

“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 ...

Not only can she scout out new lands to find food and resources for the colony, but she is also able to act as a general when ... there depending on how much or how slowly you explore the beautifully ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1910, the American entomologist William Morton Wheeler noted in his monograph Ants that the superorganismal colonies of ants are strikingly analogous to metazoan bodies because queen and ...

Various ant farms will mimic a water table, and kids can observe or map out the water cycle through their ant colony. Plus you can discuss ants’ role in the ecosystem as soil aerators. More advanced ...

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 ...

Scientists have uncovered new insights into how desert ants use the Earth’s magnetic field to help them find their way.

Like wasps and bees, ants are social and live in a colony with one or more queens. That means the workers have to keep finding food to keep everyone alive. “Ants are constantly foraging,” says ...

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 ...

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 ...