Why You Shouldn’t Just Step on Ants A Bulgarian journalist once asked Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, “Do you step on ants? Do you notice them while you walk?” She seemed a bit nervous.
A Weizmann Institute experiment found that cooperation proved more effective for ants than for humans. Anyone who has dealt with ants in the kitchen knows that they are highly social creatures; it’s ...
Ants and humans are also the only creatures in nature that consistently cooperate while transporting large loads that greatly exceed their own dimensions. Prof. Ofer Feinerman and his team at the ...
As someone interested in ecology and the environment, I commenced an in-depth study of fire ants many years before fire ants appeared in Australia. Once fire ants appeared in Australia, I formed the ...