AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Ants are social insects, which means they live in a group, or colony. Colonies live inside nests that can be built in trees, underground, or even inside special ant plants. Ant colonies are highly organized, usually ruled by a single queen, and each ant has specific jobs to do. Most ants in a colony are female workers.

Detailed explanation-2: -A group of ants is called a colony, or sometimes an army. Ants are a social insect, and live in large groups that have one ‘queen’ ant, and many ‘worker’ ants that are responsible for foraging for food, as well as caring for the queen and her offspring.

Detailed explanation-3: -A few species live in colonies of only a few dozen ants; however, the average ant colony contains thousands of individual ants. Smaller colonies live in natural crevices or openings while larger colonies create vast nests and forage for supplies and food.

Detailed explanation-4: -The average colony contains 100, 000 to 500, 000 workers and up to several hundred winged forms and queens. Queen ants can live 7 years or more, while worker ants generally live about 5 weeks, although they can survive much longer.