How do ants know when to stop building their colony in height/width?

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How do they know to stop building and to not have a 10 meter high ant colony?

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To the best of our understanding,

The only thing that limits the size of an anthill is the available food in the reachable vicinity around the hill. It grows upwards and downwards as long as the colony can both feed itself and feed growth.

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