It highlights the social structure of ants, where worker ants perform various tasks such as food storage, caring for larvae, and maintaining the city. The queen's role is primarily to lay eggs ...

She is the mother of all the ants. That means she lays the eggs, that hatch into the larvae which in turn, become the adult ants. ADAM:'The ants in a colony are not all the same. There are ...

Escamoles, sometimes called ant egg caviar, are a delicacy in Mexico. These ant larvae can cost over $50 per pound. And when they're exported prices can double. But finding escamoles isn't easy.

Queen Pharaoh ants live for about a year and lay around 35 eggs each day. Ants go through several stages — larvae, prepupae, and pupae — as they mature. It takes worker pharaoh ants 36 days to ...

all sorts of critters sneak inside fire ant nests. And while many of them are harmless, others are horrible house guests. For example, beetles burrow into the nest and devour the eggs and larvae!

Larvae of other ant species spin individual protective cocoons of silk. Oecophyllalarvae donate their silk to the colony. Straddling the leaf seam, an adult uses its antennae to tap the head of ...

NARRATOR:'Do you know what these tiny little creatures are? Yes, they're ants! NARRATOR:'There are lots of different types of ant, NARRATOR:'and they live all over the world. These ones are from ...

The velvet ant larva then hatches and proceeds to eat the host pupa, before it itself pupates and emerges from the nest as an adult velvet ant. Their hosts can be spread some distances apart, and as ...

Ants are common insects, but they have some unique capabilities—including their legendary communication skills that allow their colonies to function as superorganisms. Invasive ant species are ...