“It’s one of the fastest growing hobbies in the world,” said Zachary Liu, owner of Canada Ant Colony, a business that sells ant farms, colonies and supplies. Liu says ant-keeping is very ...

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 ...

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 the wild, ants build their homes underground. And they live together in groups called colonies, like we live together in families and cities. NARRATOR:'Inside their colony, the ants are very busy.

Ant colonies are master organizers, dividing work with incredible precision. Learn how mathematical principles guide their ...

Aa Aa Aa Among my fondest memories are the summers that I spent studying the ants of Elk Island National Park in western Canada ... more species of ants in the colony, and can often be identified ...

ADAM:'These glass boxes and tubes have been built to replicate the underground tunnels and chambers of an ant colony in the wild and they're full of busy leafcutter ants. ADAM:'This is the first ...

Ant guests will exploit the food resources in the ant colony, but at a great risk to themselves. Ants are known to kill intruders when they are detected to protect the colony. To avoid attacks ...

get agitated and aggressive when disturbed and the first few that sting a person give off pheromone signals to other ants to do the same, so if you get on the wrong side of a colony you could end ...