The leaves are then turned into fungal gardens for the ant colony to feed on.

Most oddly, perhaps, 1,500 people are members of a group 'where we all pretend to be ants in an ant colony'.

In numerous books and films, the obedient, unquestioning, ruthless ant colony stands for something fascistic.

Where once the invertebrates played happily together, bees, snails and other beasties have turned into ravenous monsters out to eat an ant colony.

When you take a step back and look at the ant colony as a whole, you see new, rather astonishing things.

The tower blocks on the estate are said to have been decanted because of ant infestation and asbestos.

The innkeeper rushes out and asks the duo to rid his inn of an ant infestation.

Inspection reports from the last 18 months, released under freedom of information laws, reveal details of mice and ant infestations, mouldy walls, equipment caked with food and poor personal hygiene.

This non-chemical product contains microscopic nematodes which will clear ant infestations.

The study shows that these rudimentary wing discs are not so rudimentary after all, but rather affect the development of the ant larvae.

The butterfly relied on a species of ant; it tricked them into thinking its caterpillars were ant larvae.

These species typically prey upon the eggs of other insects, aphids, scale insects, or ant larvae.

Some species actively feed on ant larvae in the colony, others are speculated to be scavengers.

It becomes a parasite, feeding on ant regurgitations, or a predator on the ant larvae.

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

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

Today it has been determined that it still secretes semio-chemicals as a form of chemical mimicry to gain acceptance into the host ant nest.

If there are two paths from the ant nest to a food source, then the colony usually selects the shorter path.

The adult butterfly emerges from the pupa after three to four weeks, still inside the ant nest.