After a single mating flight, where she stores sperm for life, the queen devotes herself to producing offspring. Her diet, mostly supplied by worker ants, includes sugars, proteins, and ...

ADAM:'All the eggs the queen lays are almost identical so how can they become all the different kinds of ant, that make up the colony?' ADAM:'The workers are in control of this. What they feed the ...

The problem for ants is that workers cannot start a new colony; for that you need a larger, fertile, "queen" ant that has mated with a male from a different colony. The flying ants we see in the ...