Perhaps most significantly, larger arthropods such as weaver ants represent existential threats to colonies. The explosive defense proves particularly effective against these specific enemies, as the ...

These evolutionary adaptations for slavery represent some of the most specialized warfare behaviors in the natural world, with some slave-making species entirely dependent on successful raids for ...

Either the colony evacuates the nest or they don't evacuate the nest ... and his colleagues modeled how weaver ants decide to form chains to explore their environment. Carlesso: We essentially model ...

Groups of social animals, including humans, can make complex decisions without a single central leader. Those choices aren't always made by the majority, however.

Weaver ants are some of nature’s most skilled architects, and in this video, we team up with AntsCanada to uncover how they ...

They’re small, they’re smelly, they’re conga-lining straight to your sugar and they’re bringing thousands of friends with them. Behold, the tiny-but-mighty odorous house ant. Known by many ...

A Kenyan court on Wednesday fined four men $7,700 each for trying to traffic thousands of ants valuable to the country's ...

Five colonies of yellow crazy ants (YCA) have now been detected in Maryborough in Queensland, a key access point to K'gari, following earlier detections in Booral, a Hervey Bay suburb near the ...

NAIROBI – Kenyan police who raided a national park guesthouse earlier in April aimed not to bust elephant tusk or rhino horn poachers, but a more esoteric ring trading a much smaller, more ...