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 ...

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.

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

also known as "crazy ants" due to their erratic movements. Human participants were told to avoid any verbal or gestural communication as this mirrors the ants' natural constrains. They could also ...

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.