Krzysztof Grzybacz
- Yellow
- 2025
- oil on canvas
- 200×160 cm
- courtesy of the artist and Consonni Radziszewski
Ant colonies alternate between periods of growth105 and reproduction,106 like perennial flowers.107, 108
- The colony grows by expanding the nest and creating asexual workers.
- In the reproductive phase, winged males and females are born; the colony blooms.
- Ants in certain climates retreat underground during winter; the colony wilts.
- Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990, 157