A worker caste of honey-pot ants called repletes swell into tiny balls to store food collected by foragers. Army ants move in columns, eating all other insects and small animals in their path. Ants ...

Wild suggests, “Army ant colonies are huge, their daily intake immense, their fecundity explosive. A few hundred spinning workers lost around the margins may not make all that much difference.” ...

While filming in the Congo Rainforest, the Life Story crew quickly learned why you shouldn't stand around a line of army ants for too long.