Weaver ants are some of nature’s most skilled architects, and in this video, we team up with AntsCanada to uncover how they build their incredible nests. Using leaves and silk, these ants create ...
The first time Marcela Cosarinsky saw a nest of Atta vollenweideri leaf-cutter ants, it was the late 1990s and she was in an ...
On a tree branch in South and Southeast Asia, a quiet feat of engineering unfolds every day. Dozens of weaver ants line up along the edges of green leaves. Some grip the leaf margins with their jaws, ...
When it comes to industrious hard work, leafcutter ants are the best in the ...
Cocoa cultivation in so-called agroforestry systems is widespread in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest. There, cocoa plants grow ...
Certain ants appear to alter their nest networks to prevent epidemics, offering inspiration for disease control interventions in the human world as well. Ants are many things. Like, they're very ...
A chain of weaver ants can easily outpull just about any other creature, pound for pound, making them one of the most formidable teams in the animal kingdom. Weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina), which ...
Ants are among nature’s greatest success stories, with an estimated 22,000 species worldwide. Tropical Australia in particular is a global hotspot for ant diversity. Some researchers believe it could ...