Each weaver ant colony inhabits from half a dozen to more than a hundred nests at any given time, forming a metropolis of boroughs and suburbs connected by busy commuter routes. A hierarchy of ...

A single colony can contain millions of ants ... Read More: Your Ant Farm Is Smarter Than Google Imagine you are an Oecophylla Weaver Ant. Living a tropical life in the trees, your whole community ...

Every ant colony has a queen. It’s her job to lay ... Army ants are aggressive and move their colonies in search of prey.Weaver ants are the red-and brown-colored ones found in the tropical ...

According to new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, weaver ants manage their problems by budgeting their own colony members in a very uncertain solution.

But weaver ants have to somehow make that evaluation ... akin to a gamble," the authors of a new paper write. "The colony must invest a proportion of its capital (number of ants) to perform ...

Ripan was photographing a red weaver ant colony when he spotted this slightly strange individual. It may have the face of an ant but its eight legs give it away – on closer inspection Ripan discovered ...

Ripan was photographing a red weaver ant colony when he spotted this slightly strange individual. It may have the face of an ant but its eight legs give it away – on closer inspection Ripan discovered ...