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After flying ants were seen swarming Metro Vancouver earlier this week, we had some questions and got some tANTalizing ...
A study conducted by researchers from São Paulo State University (UNESP), in Brazil, and collaborators shows that lemon leafcutter ants (Atta sexdens) exhibit behaviors that go beyond so-called ...
In the world of social creatures, from humans to ants, the spread of behaviors through a group—known as social contagion—is a well-documented phenomenon. This process, driven by social ...
Viewers on social media rushed to poke fun at the photo of ants piling debris around a poison trap to outsmart their captor.
To quantify how reverse social contagion regulates ant behavior, the researchers examined individual ant activity amongst 12 colonies of harvester ants. These colonies varied in size from several ...
A single mum claimed her home has been infested with bugs and mould as she worries about her three-year-old son's health ...
Ant genomes reveal how social insects evolved cooperation, preserved caste genes, and rewired chromosomes over 100 million ...
Leafcutter ants (Atta sexdens) exhibit a form of "social immune memory," recognizing and intensifying their response to a pathogenic fungus even 30 days post-exposure. This involves increased ...
From tiny nuisances to powerful predators, ants are some of the most fascinating, diverse and sometimes deadliest insects on ...
Source: Princeton University Press/with permission. Ants are fascinating and remarkably intelligent insects who live in complex social groups called colonies. 1,2 When I first learned about ant ...
A study conducted by researchers from São Paulo State University (UNESP), in Brazil, and collaborators shows that lemon leafcutter ants (Atta sexdens) exhibit behaviors that go beyond so-called ...