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.

Drexel University researchers sampled a variety of army ant (Eciton burchellii parvispinum) colonies to test how their habitat distribution affected the ants’ tolerances of extreme low and high ...

NARRATOR:'Inside their colony, the ants are very busy. Everyone has a job to do. ... And that means that all the different jobs can be done, from the big to the small.

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 ...

He now owns more than 30 colonies personally, and cares for more than 100 as part of his business 'Ants On A Rock' ... Thomas says the event will be the biggest ant exhibition in the world, ...