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The Queen Ant Isn't Actually in Charge and the Truth About Who Runs the Colony Is Fascinating ...

Imagine trying to build a house without a blueprint, find a shortcut through an unfamiliar city without a map, or govern a large organisation with no leaders and no meetings. It sounds impossible. Yet ...

Biologist E.O. Wilson once wrote that "ants are the most warlike of all animals," noting that clashes between ant colonies dwarfed the human battles at Waterloo and Gettysburg. But sometimes ant ...

Carpenter ants, which include more than a thousand species in the genus Camponotus, nest in wood and can be destructive to ...