In the deserts of southeastern Arizona, harvester ants congregate with serrated jaws agape outside the nests of much smaller cone ants. However, the nests’ inhabitants are not threatened. Instead, ...

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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 ...

A red harvester ant holds its jaws wide open while a cone ant barely a third its size crawls inside and picks the mouthparts ...