Narrator: At first glance, a fire ant hill — or mound, as it's properly called — looks impossibly small. And yet, a colony of up to 250,000 ants call it home. But here's the secret ...

Think of a colony as a single critter spreading itself through the trees as a thin film." As predators, weaver ants hunt practically every kind of invertebrate big enough for a meal—and so ...

NARRATOR:'There are lots of different shapes and sizes of ant in the colony. And that means that all the different jobs can be done, from the big to the small. They all work together as a group ...

“These were big ants, in big colonies ... which symbiotically feeds the larvae and the adults. In a mature colony, millions of ants will forage about 440 pounds of vegetation a year. With its ...

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.