I would have bet actual money that the dark rover ant, Brachymyrmex patagonicus, was supercolonial. This is a relatively recent arrival to Texas, and it's one of our most common ants now, getting into everything, in huge numbers.
And I would have been very wrong.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Almost all invasive ant species studied so far form supercolonies, a dense network of interconnected nests comprising numerous queens, without aggression toward non-nestmates. Here, we show that most...
