Queen ant

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A queen leafcutter ant (Atta texana) dwarfs her daughter workers. Captive colony at the University of Texas

Imagine being the size of an ant. Be careful - a face-to-face encounter with an ant would be scary and potentially life-threatening! But, if you avoided being eaten, you could learn a lot about ant anatomy from a close-up view. Ants have many body parts that are normally hard to see without a magnifying glass or microscope. And each structure has its own special function.

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Austrian research finds new queens will dismember and inter dead sister queens to prevent infection. Andrew Masterson reports.

Some queen ants have wings, though they usually get rid of the wings when they are giving birth. The wings make the queen ant very powerful, and to several people it can look like a bee or hornet!

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Live queen ants and colonies from the African continent including Banded Yellow Sugar Ants to the World’s Largest Harvester Ants, Messor cephalotes.

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Winged yellow crazy ant queens are not known to disperse by flying to new locations. Instead, colonies disperse by ‘budding’, a process where a queen leaves the colony accompanied by some workers and set off walking across terrain, or rafting down a creek to re-establish.