A single queen in the tropics; large colonies in deserts; workers with uniform morphology in temperate regions; ant social ...
The queens in colonies of social insects, such as ants, bees, and wasps, are considered the veritable embodiment of specialization in the animal kingdom. The common perception is that the queen's only ...
How does an ant colony decide who's fit to become a queen? In most cases, the larger a female ant grows to be, the greater chance it has to be crowned the queen of a colony. In fact, the size of ants ...