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
There’s one, I think in Brazil, as big as the UK
Welp, talk about learning something completely unexpected
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