Giant Carpenter Ants

The Giant Ants are the main antagonists of the 1954 film Them!.

Biography
The giant ants were first normal carpenter ants that lived in New Mexico but were mutated into huge killers by nuclear weapon tests. Later they killed off people from their acid in which they first killed a store owner. Later 2 police officers found a little girl all by herself and the dead store owner in the desert. A team of FBI agents, scientists and polie officers come together to investigate the mysterious deaths. They are attacked by a giant carpenter ant and kill it by shooting it's antennaes. They find a entrace to the hive of the Six-legged terrors which is covered in remains of unlucky victims of the huge Insects and kill the ants in it by gassing the colony and burning the survivors with flamethrowers. The team finds three huge, open eggs in the breeding chamber of the hive. The scientist of the team explains that three ant queens which are searching for a new place to start a colony. A pilot in texas gets attacked by said ant queens but survies, unlike most of the crew members of a ship in which a ant queen hatched her brood before getting destroyed by the Navi. The showdown takes place in the sewers of Los Angeles after the President of the United States declares martial law on L.A in which all the ants in the sewers get eleminated by the army, including some newly hatched queens.

Trivia

 * Them! was one of the first nuclear monsters and giant bugs movies and inspiried countless other horror movies.
 * Ants actually  don't have pupils, they have compound eyes which consist oof hundreds of small visual units
 * The ants in the movie are mutated Camponotus spp, also know as Carpenter Ants