Just like human societies, ant societies have a division of labor. Within a colony, some individuals feed the young while others are soldiers who protect the colony from intruders. New research ...

And yet, a colony of up to 250,000 ants call it home ... chasing the perfect temperature for their young charges. The nest also sports dozens of tapering tunnels that branch off from these ...

Dr George McGavin explains to the young scientists how the ant colony is organised into different types of ants, known as castes. How to build a mini ant nest. videoHow to build a mini ant nest ...

The young ant larvae need this fluid ... “So it seems this ancient and specific evolutionary innovation really creates these dependencies in an ant colony, and it really integrates the ant colony as a ...

Usually the parasitism is initiated by young queens following their insemination ... a host colony and gain acceptance within the colony. In some ants, the queens use stealth or brute force ...

Each weaver ant colony inhabits from half a dozen to more ... "is that whereas we send our young men to war, they send their old ladies." Somewhere off in the black rain forest night, Moffett ...

ADAM:'This is the first time that a man-made ant colony has been built on this scale. ADAM:'I've brought some young scientists along to Planet Ant to see what we can discover about one of the ...

Ant colonies are so tightly knit and efficient, they can pass useful knowledge between generations, which some experts believe constitutes a colony “memory.” This kind of communal knowledge is ...

Ant guests will exploit the food resources in the ant colony, but at a great risk to themselves. Ants are known to kill intruders when they are detected to protect the colony. To avoid attacks ...

Microtopia has a brand-new release date, as the robotic ant colony title will be released for PC via Steam in mid-February ...

Distancing incidents were comparatively rare." When they observed the behavior of crickets that were already integrated into the host ant colony, the researchers found that the crickets did not ...