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 ...

The black garden queen (Lasius niger) ant plays a crucial role in the survival and growth of her colony. As the sole ...

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The black garden queen ant (Lasius niger) ensures colony survival by laying thousands of eggs after a single mating. Her diet, including honeydew, insects, and sometimes her own infected larvae ...

In the few weeks before the swarming event happens, you may see heaps of soil appearing above the nests. Ants live in a caste system, where individuals have specific jobs. The queen lays the eggs ...

They usually stay outdoors in the garden, living in massive social colonies where everybody has a job, from finding food to caring for the queen ... to keep your space ant-free.

CHILD #1:How would an ant be born? ADAM:How would an ant be born? Well inside a colony there's a queen, she's a really big ant and she lays all the eggs that produce all of the ants in the colony.

There are over one hundred trillion ants on earth, approximately 14,000 ants for every human. If you weighed every human and all the ants, the scales would balance. The resin of conifer trees ...

Both species are small in stature, but hundreds of their queen ants can inhabit a single nest, enabling a colony to grow at an explosive rate. The invasive ants have entered human habitats ...

Ants are common insects, but they have some unique capabilities—including their legendary communication skills that allow their colonies to function as superorganisms. Invasive ant species are ...

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If Empire of the Ants sounds like it’s up your street, you can check out the free demo now. Otherwise, the Empire of the Ants release date is set for Thursday November 7. Empire of the Ants isn ...