Ants are very intelligent!

The first ants were looking for food to take to the nest and they smelled the food in your home and they left a scented trail for the other ants to follow. They are organized and when the other ants are told there's food in the home, they follow the scented trail and they all start taking food to the nest to the queen and ants there and store some of the food. They are energetic and will work carrying that food from sun up to sun down. 

It's amazing how ants can carry objects bigger than they are in a mouth that can't be seen.

You may never have heard how skilful and intelligent ants are. Some of you may even think of them as simple insects that wander around all day without doing anything. But those of you who think like that are mistaken, because ants, just like many other living things, also have a life of their own. 

To Fight Worms, Use Ants
To combat worms, Trojans and other malware, a team of security researchers wants to use ants. Not the actual live insects, of course, but computer programs modeled to act like ants in the way they roam a network and search for anomalies.

“Ants aren’t intelligent,” says Glenn Fink, a senior research scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory who came up with the idea for the project, “but as a colony ants exert some very intelligent behavior.”

According to Fink and one of his project partners, associate professor Errin Fulp of Wake Forest University, their uses distributed data-collecting sensors that are modeled after the six-legged natural creatures. But where ants may leave scent trails to guide other ants to a discovered threat or food source, Fink’s sensors pass along collected data to other sensors in an attempt to identify anomalous behavior that may signal a malware infection in a large-scale network.