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From single queens to mega-colonies: How ant societies are shaped by the environment

  • February 4, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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From single queens to mega-colonies: How ant societies are shaped by the environment
A single queen in the tropics; large colonies in deserts; workers with uniform morphology in temperate regions; ant social structures vary according to environmental conditions. This is shown, for the first time at a global scale, by research carried out at the Department of Ecology and Evolution of the University of Lausanne and published in PNAS.

Originally published at Phys.org

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