Parasitic queens, regardless of the type of social parasitism, must all somehow usurp a host colony and gain acceptance within the colony. In some ants, the queens use stealth or brute force to ...

This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s good to be the queen—the ant queen, that is—because mating does wonders for her immune system. When exposure ...

Common black ant queens can grow to 1/3-in., but you’ll seldom see one ... Because carpenter ants are bigger than other types ...

The presence of wings indicates an ant’s fertility—ants with wings are either queens or the drones whose job it is to mate with them. Enthusiastically social insects, ants typically live in ...

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.

The sites where the queens are released have the type of habitat the species thrive in, areas of pinewood with plenty of open space that allows sunlight in to warm the ants' nests. Twenty-one ...

Each Argentine ant colony has multiple queens, allowing the colony to expand rapidly both in population and territorial control. Today, native Californian ant species like harvester ants and ...