Researchers studied ants' movement to understand traffic efficiency. They found ants travel in organized platoons without ...

Ants, with their highly organized social behavior, have long inspired research. In particular, they have often inspired ...

Ant behavior has inspired various scientific fields because of their ability to solve complex problems. As they move, ants ...

Further analysis showed ants were more hostile towards ants that smelled of past bad encounters with other nests. When they re-crossed paths with a more passive colony’s ants, however, the insects ...

A study conducted by UniTrento researchers examined ant trails to find out how they manage to avoid congestion thanks to ...

The team also looked at cricket behavior after they were integrated into the host ant colony. In these situations, the crickets didn’t move uniformly around the colony. Instead, they remained ...

Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have discovered sophisticated behavioral strategies that enable parasitic crickets ...

There are only two animals capable of transporting an object so large that it can only be moved by cooperating: humans and ...

In the study, the team pitted ants – specifically Paratrechina longicornis – against humans in a task known as the "piano movers puzzle", where a group or individual is asked to move an ...

Crickets are parasites—for some ant colonies. The species of ant crickets from the Myrmecophilus genus can infiltrate ant ...