The life cycle of ants is described; the queen lays the eggs which hatch into larvae and then change to become the ants in the colony. When the eggs are laid they are all the same, but what and ...

Then, in mid-spring, they emerge as adults and feed on the leaves to ready themselves to mate and lay eggs, starting the life cycle over again. Black Garden Ants are extremely common. They ...

Once the egg hatches, the ant has only a few weeks of life before it succumbs to the ... and continue its head-splitting reproductive cycle. Excerpted from Rise of the Zombie Bugs: The Surprising ...