A wood ant, one of the millions from the super colony. Wood ants have very sensitive antennae which they use to smell, taste and communicate. This gallery is from ...

As the slave workers die off, the nest becomes a pure wood-ant colony. Workers have a life span of 60 days, but a queen may rule for 15 years or more. The King wants YOU: His Majesty's call-to-arms ...

Carpenter ants, which include more than a thousand species in the genus Camponotus, nest in wood and can be destructive ... which some experts believe constitutes a colony “memory.” ...

Leafcutter ants appear to remember past infections and respond more aggressively to familiar threats, according to a new ...

Without this fertile female, the colony simply cannot repopulate ... And while carpenter ants don't consume wood, if left for ...