Two Belgian teenagers, David Lornoy and Seppe Lodewijckx admitted in court that they attempted to traffic thousands of queen ...

The black garden queen (Lasius niger) ant plays a crucial role in the survival and growth of her colony. As the sole reproducer, she is responsible for laying thousands of eggs throughout her life ...

ADAM:How would an ant be born? Well inside a colony there's a queen, she's a really big ant and she lays all the eggs that produce all of the ants in the colony. CHILD #2:Where is the queen?

Workers only live a few months at most, while a queen ant − which can lay up to 2,000 eggs per day − may live several years. Red fire ants are aggressive, especially if their nests are disturbed. A ...

NARRATOR:'In a leafcutter colony there is a queen ant, and she is much bigger than the other ants. And her job is to lay eggs. NARRATOR:'Then there are lots of different types of worker ant.

It’s good to be the queen—the ant queen, that is—because mating does ... from which they’ll fertilize tens of millions of eggs in a lifetime. The researchers cultured a fungus that ...

Most of the eggs develop into workers, but when the colony is ready, the queen begins to produce virgin queens and males. When the winged males (drones) and virgin queens (princesses) emerge from the ...