I believe ants and honey bees have genetically-coded and baked-in specializations like worker and queen bees
Welp, talk about learning something completely unexpected
the largest colonies may be those of the Argentine ant Linepithema humile, an invasive ‘tramp’ species native to South America.
One supercolony in Europe spans 6000 km of the coasts of Portugal, Spain, France and Italy
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/insects-invertebrates/largest-ant-colony
That’s crazy! How is a colony defined, is it one queen is managing the whole 6000km territory?
Under normal circumstances, a colony would be the place where the ant population lives, the number of queens just has to be equal or greater than 1, as they can have multiple in a single place.
This supercolony is, from what I understood, a huge quantity of colonies that are interconnected, so you could trek from Portugal to Italy entirely within its tunnels, kinda like a state or country connected by roads
