It's the opposite of what we do. We take our youngest men, the ones with the highest reproductive future, and send them off to war. Ants don't do that. When a foraging ant finds a food source, it literally leaves a chemical trail for other members of the nest to follow when they head out to harvest the new resource. Nearly all species of ants have that capability, but it developed in different ways.
Some ants are even more resourceful.
There's a symbiotic relationship between aphids and ants. As any gardener knows, aphids dine on plants, but plant tissue contains much less nitrogen than animals need. So aphids excrete the excess sugar in order to concentrate the nitrogen. As a result, some ants become aphid ranchers, herding and tending their flocks of aphids so they can have a steady supply of honeydew. The ants, in turn, protect the aphids from parasites.