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 ...

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

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

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

Parasitic ants parasitize other ants using aggression and deception. Aa Aa Aa Among my fondest memories are the summers that I spent studying the ants of Elk Island National Park in western Canada.

Collective memory in ants refers to their ability to share and use information to improve group performance. This memory allows ants to persist in a direction of movement and avoid repeating the same ...

Researchers have identified the behavioral strategies that parasitic cricket species employ to infiltrate and inhabit host ant colonies. Their research demonstrates that these crickets use 'distancing ...

They used distancing as a rapid defense response when faced with an imminent ant attack. With dodging, cricket fled in a circular movement that put the crickets behind the ants to avoid their ...

Despite significant movement restrictions during the first wave of the pandemic, they roamed their neighborhood drilling holes into Cecropia trees and documenting the ants’ responses to the damage.