Here's a look at the three species of fire ants found in the Tar Heel State. More: Aggressive behavior, crossbreeding are ...

The slaves tend brood, gather food, feed their enslavers, care for the queen, and defend ... with the slave-making workers in slave raids against other ant colonies of their own or closely related ...

Queen ants, the only individuals in a colony that can lay eggs, can also live for decades—up to 10 times longer than workers. But for years, scientists didn’t understand why. A new study published ...

After a single mating flight, where she stores sperm for life, the queen devotes herself to producing offspring. Her diet, mostly supplied by worker ants, includes sugars, proteins, and ...

Everyone has a job to do. If they don't do their job, then other things in the colony don't work properly. NARRATOR:'In a leafcutter colony there is a queen ant, and she is much bigger than the ...

Indian jumping ants (Harpegnathos saltator) are unusual in that worker ants can, in the absence of a queen, make a switch to a queen-like status in order to reproduce and keep the colony going. In a ...

ADAM:'All the eggs the queen lays are almost identical so how can they become all the different kinds of ant, that make up the colony?' ADAM:'The workers are in control of this. What they feed the ...

Ants live in a caste system, where individuals have specific jobs. The queen lays the eggs while female workers look after the queen, eggs and larvae. They also gather food, enlarge the nest and ...