Another species, the yellow crazy ant (Anoplolepis gracilipes), is capable of forming so-called supercolonies that house hundreds or even thousands of queens. On Australia’s Christmas Island ...

different colonies have essentially combined to form gigantic supercolonies. “Super colonies, which lack genetic diversity, results in less competition between Argentine ant colonies ...

Supercolonies are exceptionally large ant colonies made up of nests that have been known to span for hundreds of miles in some cases, Penick said. “(Ants in supercolonies) have really low ...

the yellow crazy ant stood out before this discovery. The species ranks as one of the worst insect invaders, marching through island ecosystems from Hawaii to Zanzibar. Supercolonies of these ...

Tapinoma magnum ants are tiny, only about 3 millimeters long, but they live in massive groups called supercolonies. These colonies can have millions of ants, all working together like a well ...

These big-headed ants are small – about a third of the size of the native acacia ants – but vicious. They form supercolonies with hundreds of thousands of ants, and kill entire populations of ...