Hoelldobler and Wilson's magnificent work for ant lovers, The Ants, describes a supercolony of the ant Formica yessensis on the Ishikari Coast of Hokkaido.
《蚂蚁》是 Hoelldobler 和 Wilson 为蚂蚁爱好者所创作的杰出作品，这部作品描述了北海道石狩湾海岸上的一个超级蚁群——石狩红蚁。
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Their numbers are too large, and their supercolony spans too broad of an area.
它们的数量仍然巨大，而且它们的超级种群在一个地区仍然分布广泛。
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A 2009 paper in Insectes Sociaux found that Argentine ants from California, Europe and Japan formed a global supercolony.