Ant Colonies

Ants are a kind of insect that lives together in large colonies. They are the family Formicidae. Ants are a lot like bees and wasps. They all came from...

the ants will eventually die of exhaustion. People can make this happen easily. This is a side effect of the self organizing structure of ant colonies. Each...

other flies because they are myrmecophiles. This means they live in ant colonies (nests). There are more than 350 species of Microdon in the world. Some...

Tailor ants may be found in the rainforest of Asia. Colonies of weaver ants can be very large, containing more than half a million workers. The colonies can...

genera of honepot ants. Ant species often have polymorphs: different forms of the same type. The soldier ants which defend colonies are genetically the...

to these ants. Fire ants are very aggressive. Their colonies can have many queens unlike many other ant species. Because of this, fire ants have spread...

with four castes in established colonies - minims, minors, mediae and majors. Majors are also known as soldiers. Atta ants are more polymorphic than Acromyrmex...

sometimes called "white ants", incorrectly, because ants belong to the Order Hymenoptera. They are eusocial animals, as are ants and some bees and wasps...

ants, bees and wasps is called eusocial. The term applies mostly to animals, though there are some protists and prokaryotes which live as colonies. Bryozoa...

Artificial intelligence. Some animals, mostly insects like ants, or bees form large colonies. These colonies are made of many animals that communicate with each...

other. An example of this can be seen between the ant Novomessor cockerelli and red harvester ants, where the first interferes with the ability of the...

In some eusocial species, individuals of one species live together in colonies. These groups are often called nests or hives. Often there is a division...

spiders. However several ant-mimicking spiders prey either on ants or on the ants "livestock" such as aphids. When at rest the ant-mimicking crab spider...

flying insects once they land. Mostly, they eat honeybees. Hymenoptera (ants, bees and wasps) make up from 20% to 96% of all insects eaten. Before eating...

its details. The most familiar examples of eusociality are insects such as ants, bees, wasps, and termites. All of these are colonial animals which have...

the same species. However, they do not form the extreme colonies of eusocial insects, such as ants. Presocial animals can live together and take care of...

Bees are flying insects of the Hymenoptera, which also includes ants, wasps and sawflies. There are about 20,000 species of bees. Bees collect pollen from...

have only two wings. Ants, bees, and wasps (order Hymenoptera) sometimes have stingers and sometimes live in large colonies (like ant hills). True bugs (order...

plants and animals Solitary individuals leading to colonies with non-reproducing castes (termites, ants & bees) Primate societies leading to human societies...

gains its independence from Spain. 1833 – Slavery abolished in the British colonies. 1839 – The UK captures Hong Kong. 1858 - The Round Oak rail accident occurs...