Most ants have two morphologically differentiated adult castes - queens and workers - each irreversibly specialized for ...

Scientists from the University of Copenhagen have revealed how a specific hormone regulates ant caste differentiation by ...

In most social insects with distinct queen (colony germline) and worker (colony soma) castes the analogous developmental differentiation happens in the larval stage and can still be hormonally ...

and worker (colony soma) castes the analogous developmental differentiation happens in the larval stage and can still be hormonally reversed. However, in some ants colony germlines are also ...

Darwin called the existence of such workers castes his "special difficulty" because it was hard to explain how they evolved. "We know that larger ant colonies have more worker castes," says ...

Dr George McGavin explains how the ant colony is organised into different types of ants, known as castes. Each castes is a different shape and size and has a special job to do. The soldier ants ...

This study presents an important finding that ant nest structure and digging behavior depend on ant age demographics for a ground-dwelling ant species (Camponotus fellah). By asking whether ants ...

NARRATOR:'Do you know what these tiny little creatures are? Yes, they're ants! NARRATOR:'There are lots of different types of ant, NARRATOR:'and they live all over the world. These ones are from ...

That ant might be a queen mother ... Consider the colony as a unified body in which individual members are like cells, with castes of them performing separate duties like specialized organs.

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 ...