Their mother, the queen, roams around the nest while laying ... up to 2 meters beneath the ground, taller than most adult humans! Throughout the day, adult ants ferry the babies up and down ...

White ant nests are described as "one of the architectural wonders of the living world" and appear in/on trees, soil, power poles and above ground in giant mounds that can stretch 2 meters high.

And then, it would slap the ant so hard that the much smaller creature would fly head over heels through the air, off the nest, and down to the ground below. The researchers also noted that wing ...

Enthusiastically social insects, ants typically live in structured nest communities that may be located underground, in ground-level mounds, or in trees. Carpenter ants, which include more than a ...

We put the ants and some fresh soil onto the top of the nest. This is our ground level. ADAM:'From here, they made their own way, down into the nest boxes which are like the chambers they build in ...

The metabolic heat produced by these busy creatures helps to maintain nest temperature, and at night they block up entrances to stop the heat escaping. Hairy wood ants forage on the ground and in ...