Did you know that Ants have been living on earth dated back to dinosaur's days 170 million years ago, making them one of the oldest species!? Did you know that there are 10,000,000,000,000,000 (10 quadrillion!) ants and an estimated 12,500+ ant species today!? Did you know ants can carry weights up to 10–50 times their size! Ants are one big extended family. They are social insects because they live and work together in a colony. Everything that an ant does is for the good of the queen's ant and its colony.

They are the nursery that cares for the eggs, bring in the food, dig tunnels for rooms, defend their colony, and care for their mother, the queen ant! Workers come in a spectrum of sizes called minor, median, and major workers. The large worker ants — bigger than the minors and medians — are called major workers, and they act like the colony’s “female soldier ants” because they help defend the nest and break apart tougher food. The queen releases special pheromones that keep all the workers sterile. When the queen dies or goes missing, those pheromones disappear. In some species of ants, this loss of pheromones can activate one or a few workers, allowing them to lay eggs. These eggs are always unfertilized and can only grow into winged male ants — never workers and never queens. This means the colony cannot continue without a queen.

When spring come at the right temperature the colonies from all over will have young Queen ant and Male(Drone) Ant with wings leaving their nest to start their nuptial flight for mating season. The males only purpose is to mate with young queen ant then they die shortly after. The Young Queen will then fly to the ground and search her area and shed her wings to start her new colonies. If the queen ant had mated she will lay females workers and young queen ant and some drone male ant but if she is unfertilized , then she will lay only all drones.

No, they fly off in the air to meet up with other species of their kind to mate to keep the line separate so they don't inbreed.

Ant eggs go through a four-stage life cycle: egg, larva (or ant grub), pupa, and then finally adult ant. The egg stage It stays in this egg form for a few days (7 to 14), Then the larvae stage lasts for about 6 to 12 days and is the shortest ant life cycle stage, ant larvae will eat food specifically given to them by ant workers in order to grow and develop into ant pupae. Then the ant pupae stage is the second-longest of all ant life stages, lasting anywhere from 9 to 30 days to hatched into ants.

Queen ants can live anywhere from 5–20 years or longer, depending on the species.

Worker ants can still live for months or even years without a queen ant, but the colony cannot grow anymore so they slowly fade away.