In other words: With a boost from coital contact, Long Live the Queen. Habitat/range: Black garden ants (Lasius niger) live in Europe and parts of North America and Asia. They’re found under ...

Queen ants live far longer than their worker counterparts. The black garden ant queen has a lifespan of up to 15 years, while worker ants typically only live for a few months. This extraordinary ...

Pharaoh ants live in large colonies with many nests, and some colonies have multiple queens and thousands of workers. Queen Pharaoh ants live for about a year and lay around 35 eggs each day.

CHILD #2:Queen ant. ADAM:That's the queen ... So what's gonna happen is that the workers that are there are gonna live their lives but there's gonna be no one to replace them so the colony ...

Indian jumping ants (Harpegnathos saltator) are unusual in that worker ants can, in the absence of a queen, make a switch to a queen-like status in order to reproduce and keep the colony going. In a ...