Examples include humans stepping on the colony, or doing battle with other ants. Students could draw the different stages of the ant life cycle in the correct order. The most important ant is the ...

In the midst of battle, these ants release specific alarm pheromones aimed at the foreign ants that trigger aggressive behaviors in their colony members. This response not only mobilizes workers ...

After a severe flood has affected the construction of the ant colony, a major reconstruction ... such as healing troops, to steer the battle in the right direction. Grow your ant empire By ...

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 ...

Narrator: At first glance, a fire ant hill — or mound, as it's properly called — looks impossibly small. And yet, a colony of up to 250,000 ants call it home. But here's the secret ...

Each weaver ant colony inhabits from half a dozen to more ... they're the most likely to encounter enemies and fall in battle. "A principal difference between human beings and ants," those ...

The super colony contains half a billion ants from rival groups living together in peace. This gallery is from Natural World — 2017-2018 , Attenborough and the Empire of the Ants ...