Fire ant queens. Even if only one queen survives, within a month or so, the colony can expand to thousands of individuals. Some colonies may be polygynous (having multiple queens per nest). Fire ants are resilient and can survive floods. During Hurricane Harvey in Texas in 2017, clumps of fire ants, known as rafts, were seen clumped together on the surface of the water. Each clump had as many as 100,000 individual ants, which formed a temporary structure until finding a new permanent home. Fire ant queens, the reproductive females in their colony, also are generally the largest. Their primary function is
Ant on a rubber rope equivalent to a speed formula_58 in terms of formula_49. So if we write the position of the ant in terms of formula_49 at time formula_39 as formula_62, and the speed of the ant in terms of formula_49 at time formula_39 as formula_65, we can write: Now, formula_69 which gives formula_70, so formula_71. If the ant reaches the target-point (which is at formula_51) at time formula_73, we must have formula_74 which gives us: (For the simple case of v=0, we can consider the limit formula_77 and obtain the simple solution formula_78 ) As this gives a finite value formula_79 for all