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For these ants, the war ends either when the opposing colony is destroyed or when the available prey is sufficient again for the needs of the colonies, which have then lost thousands of members. [4] Estimates from 2016 on certain ant species show a loss of about a third of the total colony population in case of victory. [12]
Colonies of army ants are large compared to the colonies of other Formicidae. Colonies can have over 15 million workers and can transport 3000 prey (items) per hour during the raid period. [14] [20] When army ants forage, the trails that are formed can be over 20 m (66 ft) wide and over 100 m (330 ft) long. [20]
In ants, social conflicts, sex conflicts, or caste conflicts can exist. These conflicts occur within the same colony or supercolony at various levels: on an individual scale, between two or more specific ants; on the scale of sex, between males and females; or on the scale of different castes, between queens and workers.
An unusual ant colony has been documented in a recently published study. The population lives in an old bunker that was used to house nuclear weapons. Scientists have discovered a totally bizarre ...
An ant colony is a population of ants, typically from a single species, capable of maintaining their complete lifecycle. Ant colonies are eusocial, communal, and efficiently organized and are very much like those found in other social Hymenoptera, though the various groups of these developed sociality independently through convergent evolution. [1]
Eciton burchellii is a species of New World army ant in the genus Eciton. This species performs expansive, organized swarm raids that give it the informal name, Eciton army ant. [2] This species displays a high degree of worker polymorphism. Sterile workers are of four discrete size-castes: minors, medias, porters (sub-majors), and soldiers ...
Players control an ant colony. Like traditional real-time strategy games, players engage in base-building, but the ant colony is the base. Various types of ants comprise the factions, who gather resources in the form of food. [2] Having a surplus of food means that reinforcements can be quickly birthed, but running low can cause the colony to ...
Once a worker threshold has been reached, resources will then be invested into new males and queens. When a new nest is formed, queens are not a necessity; workers can raise new queens after finding a suitable nest site. [25] [28] In pharaoh ant colonies new males and queen ants can be produced when the existing fertile queen is removed.