<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nTo summarize, a group of ants are called differently based on the context. In general, they\u2019re called a colony based on their social structure. However, they\u2019re also sometimes referred to as army or swarm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An army of ants refers to worker ants on the ground. On the other hand, a swarm of ants refers to winged reproductives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There are a few collective nouns used to call a group of ants. These nouns include colony, army, and swarm. Usage of these nouns varies depending on context. In this article, we’ll learn more about these nouns as we break down when they’re used. Colony of Ants Ants are social insects that live in organized…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3505,"comment_status":"closed","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\/3503"}],"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=3503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scifaqs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3690,"href":"https:\/\/scifaqs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions\/3690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scifaqs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scifaqs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scifaqs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scifaqs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}