Imagine half a million Army ants in a colony! By day they kill everything in their path. At night they rest in a bivouac constructed out of their living bodies.
Brown said: “They are kind of grotesque. They just dangle from the ceiling of the colony and don’t really do much other than regurgitate food and get force-fed so it’s a weird existence.”
Brown said: “They are kind of grotesque. They just dangle from the ceiling of the colony and don’t really do much other than regurgitate food and get force-fed so it’s a weird existence.”
Brown said: “They are kind of grotesque. They just dangle from the ceiling of the colony and don’t really do much other than regurgitate food and get force-fed so it’s a weird existence.”
Brown said: “They are kind of grotesque. They just dangle from the ceiling of the colony and don’t really do much other than regurgitate food and get force-fed so it’s a weird existence.”
Fire ants have evolved so remarkably that they can self-assemble into structural tools utilized by the entire colony, including a buoyant raft, to ensure it stays intact.
A leaf-cutter ant queen mates only once - just before establishing a new colony. She can then keep the sperm viable for up to 15 years and produce as many as 300 million offspring.
QR codes are generally something we think of as silly, but it turns out they can actually serve interesting purposes for science, like tracking an entire colony of tagged ants to better understand their corporate ladder.
QR codes are generally something we think of as silly, but it turns out they can actually serve interesting purposes for science, like tracking an entire colony of tagged ants to better understand their corporate ladder.
QR codes are generally something we think of as silly, but it turns out they can actually serve interesting purposes for science, like tracking an entire colony of tagged ants to better understand their corporate ladder.
As big as 10 football fields, this full-scale replica of a section of the former British colony took a year to build, costs $5 million - a fifth of the film's budget - and includes the facades of about 200 shops.
A leaf-cutter ant queen mates only once - just before establishing a new colony. She can then keep the sperm viable for up to 15 years and produce as many as 300 million offspring.
Fire ants have evolved so remarkably that they can self-assemble into structural tools utilized by the entire colony, including a buoyant raft, to ensure it stays intact.
These little burrowing rodents are one of two mammal species that have a eusocial structure like that of termites and bees. One queen and 75-80 colony members live together in an underground world of complex tunnels.