This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s good to be the queen—the ant queen, that is—because mating does wonders for her immune system. When exposure ...

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CHILD #1:How would an ant be born? ADAM:How would an ant be born? Well inside a colony there's a queen, she's a really big ant and she lays all the eggs that produce all of the ants in the colony.

NARRATOR:'In a leafcutter colony there is a queen ant, and she is much bigger than the other ants. And her job is to lay eggs. NARRATOR:'Then there are lots of different types of worker ant.

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Most of the eggs develop into workers, but when the colony is ready, the queen begins to produce virgin queens and males. When the winged males (drones) and virgin queens (princesses) emerge from the ...

That ant might be a queen mother, weighing about the same as a few grains of salt. But she, along with other queens and their worldwide empires, would match the weight of the seven billion people ...

She has a passion for lifestyle topic... The national average cost to hire an ant exterminator is about $250, though costs can range from $100 to $500. Ants are common insects all over the world ...

Why do more young women favor Kamala Harris while more young men favor Donald Trump? Read this pair of articles and post your comments and questions for Claire Cain Miller by Oct. 31. By The ...

Queen Elizabeth II was the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. She assumed the title of Queen in 1952 after her father's death and reigned for more than 70 years ...

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Warner’s handling of Cartoon Network and its animated legacy in recent months is something that could diplomatically be described as “not ideal,” between the closure of the iconic Cartoon ...