Meat Ants

Description:

Meat ants live in underground nests of over 60000 ants. Many nests may be connected together into a supercolony. Nest holes are regularly arranged, and each leads to a separate series of branched tunnels, which typically do not connect with the tunnels from other holes. Satellite colonies are commonly formed by reproductively active daughter queens near the main nest, usually around five to ten metres away, sometimes as much as 50 metres.