ANTCOLONY
Ant colony
An ant colony is the basic family unit around which ants organize their lifecycle. Ant colonies are eusocial, and are very much like those found in other social Hymenoptera, though the various groups of these developed sociality independently through convergent evolution. The typical colony consists of one or more egg-laying queens, a large number of sterile females and, seasonally, a large number of winged sexual males and females. Periodically, swarms of the winged sexuals depart the nest in great nuptial flights. The males die shortly thereafter, along with most of the females. A small percentage of the females survive to initiate new nests.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Ant colony
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