Just like human societies, ant societies have a division of labor. Within a colony, some individuals feed the young while others are soldiers who protect the colony from intruders. New research ...

Narrator: At first glance, a fire ant hill — or mound, as it's properly called — looks impossibly small. And yet, a colony of up to 250,000 ants call it home. But here's the secret ...

In every season, greedy grasshoppers demand a share of food from a colony of ants. But one day, their annual offering is inadvertently destroyed, and the grasshoppers demand twice as much food as ...

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 ...