Insects: Worker ants bring back protein-rich food like insects to feed the queen and larvae. Recycling Larvae: In certain cases, as we'll explore below, queens consume infected or dead larvae to ...

They learn that the queen is much larger than all the other ants, with the smaller ants that surround her tending to her every need. The life cycle of ants is described; the queen lays the eggs ...

Ant pupae—which are equivalent to the chrysalis stage of the butterfly—produce a milklike substance derived from molting fluid that is eaten by both adult ants and larvae. Typically, when insects molt ...

The research focused on the black garden ant, which typically founds new colonies alone and is highly vulnerable to disease ...