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.” ...

(Much like termites, which cause far more severe damage.) Some species, such as army ants, defy the norm and do not have permanent homes. (Why invasive ants are a bigger threat than previously ...