On a recent trip to Colorado, I got to spend a few hours in the Rocky Mountains at about 7500 feet. It was an ant lovers paradise. Virtually ever stone I flipped had a colony of ants under it. I found six different species in no time flat.
Although I tried to disturb them as little [...]
Ant larvae are generally not a hot topic. Most people don’t see them because they are hidden within the ant nest. When noticed, the young ants seem to be legless grubs passively laying around and waiting to be tended by the adult worker ants. Or are they? Let’s take a closer look at ant larvae.