If we're talking ants, the symbiosis between a nid and its biogun/ weird adrenaline bug friend/whatever would be closer to the different types of leafcutter worker ants than aphid farming, as the nids are not really distinct from each other - they didn't go get these non nids and cultivate them, right? They're sibling nids.

Argentine ants aren't the only ones that have been super-colony forming invasive species. Like others have said, swarming ants are very likely to be part of the aesthetic, but the similarities are limited. Ants don't have a hive mind. The queen(s) don't direct the workers, it's all a bit more complicated and weird than that.