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A soldier found an ant colony in their new barracks room. (Reddit) In the 2012 “Avengers” movie, God of Mischief Loki said, “An ant has no quarrel with a boot.” ...

Everything in the ant hill seems to need the liquid secretions from members of the colony that are in their pupal stage. By Joshua Sokol Orli Snir, a biologist at the Rockefeller University in New ...

The largest ants, known as majors, protect the colony, while the medium-size ants do much of the foraging. The tiniest ants, called minims, help groom and feed the queen, among other duties.

Species of ants that have different colony sizes also use other pheromones to send a variety of messages. “We think that in the wild, clonal raider ants usually have a colony size of just tens ...

Just like human societies, ant societies have a division of labor. Within a colony, some individuals feed the young while others are soldiers who protect the colony from intruders. New research ...