When any ants enter your home, it’s usually because they’ve discovered food. Black ants form trails between food sources and ...

This familiar species of black ant, about 3 mm long ... the researchers—opted for the lowest common denominator. "An ant colony is actually a family," Feinerman says. "All the ants in the ...

Narrator: At first glance, a fire ant hill — or mound, as it's properly called — looks impossibly small. And yet, a colony of up to 250,000 ants call it home. But here's the secret ...

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 ...

Thus, when one opens a mound and sees red and black ants both in frantic ... must all somehow usurp a host colony and gain acceptance within the colony. In some ants, the queens use stealth ...

Ants range in size from the miniscule up to one inch long, and usually appear black, brown ... which some experts believe constitutes a colony “memory.” This kind of communal knowledge ...

Little black ants are 1/16-inch long ... They will take the insecticide back to the colony to share with the babies and queen(s). You should start to see a reduction in activity after a few ...