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

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

In videos that recently went viral, the ants — called longhorn crazy ants (Paratrechina longicornis) — danced through the ...

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

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

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.

Evolutionary biologists are investigating the extent to which ants learn from past experiences. After being attacked by ants from a particular nest, ants behave more aggressively towards others from ...

This memory allows ants to persist in a direction of movement and avoid repeating the same mistakes. Ants communicate primarily through pheromones, chemical substances that convey information about ...

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.

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 ...