Each ant has a specific role to play, and this division of labor is essential for the colony’s success. The queen, often thought of as the ruler, is actually more of a reproductive machine.

NARRATOR:'In a leafcutter colony there is a queen ant, and she is much bigger than the other ants. And her job is to lay eggs. NARRATOR:'Then there are lots of different types of worker ant.

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 ...

In ant colonies, the queens reproduce but the workers do not, and for years it had been a mystery why some individuals would forgo the opportunity to reproduce to support a queen instead. More than a ...

Ant colonies are one of the wonders of nature: complex, organised... and mysterious. This programme reveals the secret, underground world of the ant colony, in a way that’s never been seen before.

CHILD #1:How would an ant be born? ADAM:How would an ant be born? Well inside a colony there's a queen, she's a really big ant and she lays all the eggs that produce all of the ants in the colony.

Ants live in a caste system, where individuals have specific jobs. The queen lays the eggs while female workers look after the queen, eggs and larvae. They also gather food, enlarge the nest and ...