Anyone who has dealt with ants in the kitchen knows that ants are highly social creatures; it's rare to see one alone. Humans ...

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 ...

Black ants form trails between food sources and their colony. Occasionally, they’ll establish a colony in the walls of the building, but usually, it’s outside. If you have houseplants ...

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 ...

In the wild, ants build their homes underground. And they live together in groups called colonies, like we live together in families and cities. NARRATOR:'Inside their colony, the ants are very busy.

A wood ant, one of the millions from the super colony. Wood ants have very sensitive antennae which they use to smell, taste and communicate. This gallery is from ...

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 ...