1747 W. Gould 98 One Use of Ant-Colonies is to sustain the above mentioned, and perhaps other Species of Birds and Animals.
1897 J. H. Comstock viii. 276 The workers are by far the most interesting portion of the ant colony.
2006 J. T. Costa xviii. 600 Other gregarious myrmecophiles live very closely with their attendant ants, often within the ant colony itself.