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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

There is currently a “supercolony” of ants that are originally from Asia by the Waalsdorpervlakte between The Hague and ...

One distinguishing sign of a fire ant hill is that you won’t find a hole/entrance on the top like with other ant hills.

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 ...