🐜 antsusa

Learn about ants

Plain-English explainers for how a real ant colony lives, grows, and reproduces — the same biology modelled in the antsusa simulation.

The ant colony life cycle →

From a queen’s single mating flight to a mature colony of thousands.

Glossary

claustraldealationnaniticcallowtrophallaxisalatenuptial flighteclosioncocoonlarvainstargasterbrood

Species

Chestnut Carpenter AntBlack Garden Ant

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