Do ant colonies ever rise up against their queen?

Yes, whenever there are multiple queens there may be a mutiny with only one queen left standing (sometimes they over do it and they all die out). read more

Some species of ants takeover other species colonies and essentially enslave the workers to take care of her own brood. In these cases, the enslaved ants do sometimes rise up and overthrow the queen. read more

No ant colony will ever accept a foreign ant, even if there’s work enough for them. Ants are territorial and very protective of their colonies; and they have enough olfactory signatures to pick one colony from another. They won’t entertain another ant, even if it is from a closely-related colony. read more

Ant colonies work somewhat like a superorganism, with the queen ant producing little workers that will meet her needs and their siblings' needs. But there is always give and take, with individual survival sometimes trumping the good of the group, the research found. read more