How architecture can make ants better workers
Construction traits of nests improve collective behavior
AFFECTED BY ARCHITECTURE Among true harvester ants (one shown collecting a seed), the form of their nest affects how briskly foragers gather at a windfall.
N. Pinter-Wollman
Great architecture makes a difference even to ants.
Take a typical colony of 10,000 or more true harvester ants (Veromessor andrei).