HOW DOES THE QUEEN GIVE COMMANDS?

Ants live in colonies of various sizes. According to Wikipedia, there are an estimated 22,000 species of ants that number in the billions, silently working away under and on the surface of the earth. A colony is made up of 3 types of ants: males, queens, and workers. The queen ant is not the commander in chief. She is queen in the sense that she is the mother of the colony. The ants work by instinct and need no commander. According to some sources, some ants work tirelessly from sunrise to late in the night.