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 ...

Queen ants, the only individuals in a colony that can lay eggs, can also live for decades—up to 10 times longer than workers. But for years, scientists didn’t understand why. A new study published ...

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 ...