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The book also discusses the functional and environmental significance of these nests, and poses critical questions about ant behavior and the role of architecture in their colonies. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The work won the 2022 PROSE Award in Biological Sciences from the Association of American Publishers .
The female worker ants do not have wings and reproductive females lose their wings after their mating flights in order to begin their colonies. Therefore, unlike their wasp ancestors, most ants travel by walking. Some species are capable of leaping.
The young mated queens land and, in the case of most ants and all termites, remove their wings. They then attempt to found a new colony. The details of this vary from species to species, but typically involve the excavation of the colony's first chamber and the subsequent laying of eggs.
Termites have four wings that are the same size, translucent and stacked on top of each other. Flying ants have a pinched, small waist; whereas termites have a thick waist.
The book, "An Introduction to Behavioural Ecology" by Davies, Krebs, and West states that the workers are sterile females that do not develop wings. Also, as the colony produces a new cohort of reproductive, the winged females and males leave the colony on their nuptial flights.
The pavement ant is dark brown to blackish, and 2.5–4 millimeters (0.10–0.16 in) long. A colony is composed of workers, alates, and a queen. Workers do have a small stinger, which can cause mild discomfort in humans but is essentially harmless. Alates, or new queen ants and drones, have wings, and are at least twice as large as the workers ...
Colonies of real army ants always have only one queen, while some other ant species can have several queens. The queen is dichthadiigyne (a blind ant with large gaster) but may sometimes possess vestigial eyes. [5] The queens of army ants are unique in that they do not have wings, have an enlarged gaster size and an extended cylindrical abdomen ...
In entomology, "alate" usually refers to the winged form of a social insect, especially ants [2]: 209 or termites, [3] though it can also be applied to aphids [4] and some thrips. [5] Alate females are referred to as gynes, and are typically those destined to become queens. [6] A "dealate" is an adult insect that shed or lost its wings ...