The footage captures a large ant nest beneath a tree, with worker ants actively maintaining the colony. Scenes show ants carrying food, cleaning themselves, and communicating through their antennae.

If you live in a rural or suburban area in the Southern states, you’ve likely seen a fire ant hill a few times in your life.

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 ...

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.

Even over breakfast here in the rain forest of Queensland, Australia, he's pondering what sort of organism an ant colony amounts to, since it is this social group as a whole, not the individual ...

Ant colonies are so tightly knit and efficient, they can pass useful knowledge between generations, which some experts believe constitutes a colony “memory.” This kind of communal knowledge is ...

ADAM:'These glass boxes and tubes have been built to replicate the underground tunnels and chambers of an ant colony in the wild and they're full of busy leafcutter ants. ADAM:'This is the first ...

Exploring how ant colony behaviors can revolutionize traffic systems, enhance safety, and reduce urban congestion.

If the colony moves to a new location, the slaves carry their enslavers to their new nest. Sometimes, the slaves even participate with the slave-making workers in slave raids against other ant ...

There is also anecdotal evidence that flying ant days often occur after some summer rain. Prior to swarming, ants are going about their everyday business and living in a colony in a nest. Black garden ...