<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nAnt colonies are composed of 3 types of ants, the queens, workers, and males. These different types of ants all have their respective roles to help the colony grow and survive. Queens for instance are generally responsible for reproduction while workers are tasked with nest construction, foraging, and other tasks related to colony upkeep. As for the males, these ants are specialized for one single purpose, to mate with virgin queens to help them establish new colonies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These different types of ants can be differentiated through their physical characteristics. Queens and male ants are generally larger than workers. They also have muscular thoraxes due to their wings,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In terms of structure, most ant colonies are monogynous or have only one reproductive queen. There are some colonies however, that have varying amounts of queens. Some are polygynous or have multiple reproductive queens while there are also others that have no queens at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ants are social animals which live in large organized groups called colonies. These colonies consist of thousands of ants categorized into different castes all working together towards the growth and survival of the colony. Together these ants make up a superorganism which behave and think as a unit. In this article we\u2019ll look deeper into…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scifaqs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scifaqs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scifaqs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scifaqs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scifaqs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scifaqs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scifaqs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scifaqs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scifaqs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scifaqs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}