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.

The common perception is that the queen's only ... such as the care of the brood (eggs and larvae). Libbrecht's team now questioned this basic assumption. They focused on ant species where the ...

Despite their tiny size, ants are able to accomplish absolutely incredible feats. They can build amazingly intricate nests, ...

Solo Leveling's Ant Queen and its role in the story (Image via A-1 Pictures). Solo Leveling's Ant Queen has had a small but important role in the second season of the anime at the moment ...

This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s good to be the queen—the ant queen, that is—because mating does wonders for her immune system. When exposure ...

An ant colony can only expand so much. At some point a new queen will need to strike out on her own to begin a new colony ... She won't eat for weeks - not until her first brood of daughter workers ...

Invasive ant species are becoming a problem, however, with research showing that over 500 species of ants were found in countries where they aren’t native, having hopped a ride with humans ...