How Ants Communicate With Their Colonies

Insects organise their colonies by a system of chemicals which essentially they release to each other. For example if the queen starts to fail and most insect colonies then the workers can pick this up and react accordingly because they don't smell her so much. So it's very simple rules that they're following all the time nothing very complicated. But in there is but in many ants there is a trail which they leave again a sort of chemical smell which they smear on the ground and all the ants kind of follow that. You can see where they've been. Can you get rid of it? Can you rub it to get rid ofIt? Well I think this shows that ants do have a big