In ants, social conflicts, sex conflicts, or caste conflicts can exist. These conflicts occur within the same colony or supercolony at various levels:...

Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from vespoid...

or deadly species. In general, there are two main ways ants conduct these conflicts. On the one hand, some species use specific ants that are more powerful...

Dorylus, also known as driver ants, safari ants, or siafu, is a large genus of army ants found primarily in central and east Africa, although the range...

worker caste to ensure rapid growth of new budding colonies. When social ants encounter ants from another colony, behavior can be either aggressive or non-aggressive...

(1995). "7 – Kin Conflict: Reproduction (Part 2 – Queen Policing, Queen Control, and Queen Signaling)". Social Evolution in Ants: Monographs in behavior and...

The Ant and the Grasshopper, alternatively titled The Grasshopper and the Ant (or Ants), is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 373 in the Perry Index. The...

reduced in size due to successful bait treatment are prone to predation by Argentine ants. The ants may play a vital role in removing weakened fire ant colonies...

behaviors that allow conflict to arise. Bos, Nick; Patrizia d’Ettorre (22 March 2012). "Recognition of Social Identity in Ants". Frontiers in Psychology. 3:...

coexistence with dominant species, including meat ants. This means green-head ants avoid conflict with meat ants. Certain myrmicines, which are highly competitive...

International Union for the Study of Social Insects Patterns of self-organization in ants Reciprocity (social psychology) Stigmergy Ant colony optimization (ACO)...

worker caste for which they have been commonly termed "white ants"; however, they are not ants, to which they are only distantly related. About 2,972 extant...

strictly South American genus of ant in the subfamily Ponerinae, commonly called tocandiras or giant Amazonian ants. These ants are generally less well known...

instances in which this form of agriculture evolved in ants resulting in a dependence on fungi for food. These instances were the attine ants and some ants that...

Actor–network theory (ANT) is a theoretical and methodological approach to social theory where everything in the social and natural worlds exists in constantly shifting...

Worker policing is a behavior seen in colonies of social hymenopterans (ants, bees, and wasps) whereby worker females eat or remove eggs that have been...

later be composited on a CG Ant-Man". Entomologist Steven Kutcher provided suggestions to the filmmakers on how to film live ants. Following the completion...

Like system dynamics, social dynamics is concerned with changes over time and emphasizes the role of feedbacks. However, in social dynamics individual choices...

Typical examples of behavioral modification can be found in the societies of ants, bees and termites. Ant colonies may possess millions of individuals. E. O...

F. (2003). "Reproductive conflict in animal societies: hierarchy length increases with colony size in queenless ponerine ants". Behavioral Ecology and...

which ants eat. The ants provide protection to the aphids against predators, and, in some instances, raise the aphid eggs and larvae inside the ant colony...

political scientists, anthropologists and social historians. The term has a wide range of sometimes conflicting meanings, and there is no broad consensus...

are found in many primate species such as chimpanzees, as well as in many ant species, group conflict may be a general feature of animal social behavior...

acknowledged degree of sociality. Eusociality has evolved in several orders of insects. Common examples of eusociality are from Hymenoptera (ants, bees, sawflies...

with ants in the highest level of sociability on the spectrum of animal ethology, although others disagree. Social group living may have evolved in humans...

prestige. Social status hierarchies have been documented in a wide range of animals: apes, baboons, wolves, cows/bulls, hens, even fish, and ants. Natural...

Fungus-growing ants (tribe Attini) comprise all the known fungus-growing ant species participating in ant–fungus mutualism. They are known for cutting...

infected conspecifics. Argentine ants (Linepithema humile) and cornfield ants (Lasius alienus) both detect chemical 'ant deterrent factors' adaptively produced...

A resource war is a type of war caused by conflict over resources. In a resource war, there is typically a nation or group that controls the resource...

insects like ants and honey bees are multicellular animals that live in colonies with a highly organized social structure. Colonies of some social insects...