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  2. Army ant - Wikipedia

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    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]

  3. Eciton burchellii - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Eciton - Wikipedia

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    There are ant-mimicking staphylinid beetles, shaped like the ants they follow, that run with the swarm, some of them preying on stragglers or other insects injured or flushed by army-ant activity, though most of these are inquilines in the ant nest; these and other insects sometimes spend their entire lives hidden in Eciton colonies, often ...

  5. Dorylus laevigatus - Wikipedia

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    D. laevigatus colonies are fairly small for army ant colonies, ranging from 30,000 to 1,000,000 individuals. Because the colonies prefer long-term food exploitation and stable column foraging systems to massive raids, there is little pressure for the colonies to expand and support the massive numbers of individuals common in surface-hunting ...

  6. Dorylus - Wikipedia

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    Also, unlike some New World army ants, driver ants are not specialized predators of other species of ant, instead being more generalistic with a diet consisting of a diversity of arthropods. Their colonies are enormous compared to other ant species, and can contain over 20 million individuals. [3]

  7. Yes, Ants Actually Farm Their Food - AOL

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    These castes, or groups, are ranked by size and function: Maxima. Media. Minima. Major. ... Like their name, major ants serve as the colony’s military force and defend the nest. Some major ants ...

  8. Scientists have discovered a totally bizarre ant colony ...

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    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.

  9. Ant colony - Wikipedia

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    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 ...