Imagine a small, rare and endangered lizard or bird is hatching out of its egg. If there is a fire ant nest 150 metres downwind, then within minutes the fire ants will smell the little creature ...
From there, scientists examined how the various ant groups subsequently reacted when they encountered the aggressive Nest A ants—either for the first time, once again, or in comparison to Nest B ...
Sugar ants invade your ... soda back to the nest, potentially killing the whole colony. Image Credit: Shutterstock. You may like sugar in your coffee, but ants insist on sugar sans any coffee at all, ...
After being attacked by ants from a particular nest, ants behave more aggressively towards others from that same nest. A team led by evolutionary biologist Volker Nehring is investigating the ...