A formicarium, designed primarily for the study of ant colonies.

Like a disturbed ant colony, the whole camp was alive with excitement.

This fungus no longer exists naturally outside the ant colonies.

"This is Star's third try for a viable ant colony."

The place was like one of those little ant colonies you can buy, but it cost them $888 a month, rent-stabilized.

The largest one, with 351 trees, had been tended by the same ant colony for more than 800 years.

A refined family tree will provide better clues on how the complex social behavior of ant colonies evolved.

I used them to represent it, and, as a reader, follow through an epic of one great war after another among the ant colonies.

The entire earth's surface, the authors have suggested, is really a "network of ant colonies."

Larvae may be found very deep in ant colonies.

Larvae may be found very deep in ant nests.

Many are found in association with ant nests.

The scene reminded Menander of nothing so much as a gigantic ant nest.

Most appear to live in ant nests in their early stages of life.

They have an edible elaiosome-like structure and are taken into the ant nest where the young hatch.

Often, they can be found sitting in the vicinity of ant nests or trails.

They're more natural in the way they're structured to stimulate the ant nests.

The adult butterfly emerges from the pupa after 3-4 weeks, still inside the ant nest.

The butterfly must crawl out of the ant nest before it can expand its wings.

It is a society more like that of the ant nest than anything else I know.