What is the social structure of leaf cutting ants?

Question

what is the social structure of leaf cutting ants? I'd like a simple answer please, im a blonde. lol

Answer 1

Found some information here at this website which seems to be explained pretty well.

A colony of Leafcutting Ants is comprised of several castes. Most of these are female. Males, who hatch from unfertilized eggs are drones, and die shortly after mating with the queen.  Drones are considered lazy and inferior members of the colony, since all they do is eat and lie around until they are mature enough to mate. Only queens and drones can mate. Most colonies have only one queen, but sometimes there is two or three, especially in large colonies. Other castes include minors ('nursers'), medians ('workers'), and majors ('soldiers'). These are all essentially workers, besides the fact that they have specialized jobs and different sizes.  Queens and drones are the only ants in the colony that can fly. Ants with wings look much like stingless wasps. The queen loses her wings after she mates.

This second article seems written more complicatedly. For some reason you need to scroll up instead of scroll down. Here is a little of what it says:

In the great majority of ants, colonies are families or groups of related families. There are always at least two generations present at one time. In the simplest case, each colony consists of the queen and her daughters—the workers. These workers are full sisters to each other because they all have the same mother and father. Some colonies may consist of full sisters and workers with different fathers, or half sisters. In still others, a colony may contain more than one queen, resulting in a complicated family structure.