Any ant that enters a colony without a matching scent will be attacked.

Here for example, is a colony of army ants building a tunnel.

Here's an example of ants building a bridge with their bodies, so that other members of the ant colony can cross the gap between the two leaves.

So, the ant colony is a great model you have all these little parts that collectively add up to a great thing.

Ants play.

In ant species with queen castes, when the dominant queen stops producing a specific pheromone, workers begin to raise new queens in the colony.

In the early 1990s, the video game SimAnt, which simulated an ant colony, won the 1992 Codie award for Best Simulation Program .

When we talk about bottom up, decentralized phenomena, the ant colony is the classic metaphor, because, no individual ant knows what it's doing, but collectively ants are able to reach incredibly intelligent decisions.

Some of the ants classified as pests include the pavement ant, yellow crazy ant, sugar ants, the Pharaoh ant, carpenter ants, Argentine ant, odorous house ants, red imported fire ant, and European fire ant.

But in a small colony, it's likely to meet fewer foragers, just because there are fewer other foragers there to meet.

It's a French colony.

Ants everywhere.

Bloody ants!

Throughout the animal kingdom, for example ants. Ants play.

It's a slave colony.

Now ants most ants, including these, don't see very well.

In ant hills.

Redant hills.

Some termites, including Nasutitermes corniger , form associations with certain ant species to keep away predatory ant species.

The caterpillar is then taken into the ant nest where it feeds on the ant larvae.

The Colony of Curaçao and Dependencies ( ) was a Dutch colony from 1815 until 1828 and from 1845 until 1936.

House of lepers

So every year, on the same day and it's a mystery exactly how that happens each colony sends out its virgin, unmated queens with wings, and the males, and they all fly to a common place. And they mate.

So every year, on the same day and it's a mystery exactly how that happens each colony sends out its virgin, unmated queens with wings, and the males, and they all fly to a common place.

Deborah Gordon digs ants

I noticed there was some ants running around.

And then I sat down and all the ants came along.

Have you seen all the ants?

The fact remained that two thirds of Western Sahara was still a colony, the last one in Africa.

Social parasites take advantage of interactions between members of social organisms such as ants or termites.

Ants never make more ants colonies make more colonies.

A great example to begin with is ants.

Some arthropod species spend part of their lives within ant nests, either preying on ants, their larvae, and eggs, consuming the food stores of the ants, or avoiding predators.

We were a colony of Portugal for 450 years.

And every colony has a name, which is a number, which is painted on a rock.

He died in Australia, in a penal colony.

She's an American painter who thinks Rome is a colony.

This is a new island. There'll be a new colony, a new governor.

And this is true of most ants that the ants you see walking around don't do much eating.

He's just got you staked out on an ant hill, that's all a dry ant hill.

He tried to get rid of the ants.

Actually you take any object coated with fig juice, and the ants will carry it back to the nest.

The Babylonians called them Zerbabu.

People are running around like ants.

These ants are driving me crazy.