Hitching a ride: A leaf-cutter ant carries a leaf, while smaller ants called minums hitch a ride. These minums act as a defence to make sure parasitic wasps don t lay eggs on the workers carrying the ...

A man camping in the Amazon rainforest shared the moment he was woken up by leaf cutter ants ripping apart his tent. Conservationist Paul Rosolie was resting in the world's largest rainforest when the ...

In the late ‘90s, Cameron Currie, now a professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin, traversed through the Panamanian rainforest to observe the world’s most ancient agriculturalists: leaf ...

Somewhere in the middle of the Amazon rain forest in South America is a strange kind of frog (Lithodytes lineatus) that appears to be completely impervious to aggressive leaf-cutter ants, and until ...

When someone tells you that their camera setup was destroyed by bugs, what comes to mind? A failed firmware update, maybe? How about a corrupt memory card or a faulty sensor? While those all may seem ...

'It was hell. I've never seen anything like it. That night was insanity. It was just a nightmare.' Paul Rosolie is telling MailOnline Travel about the night in the Peruvian Amazon that leaf-cutter ...

New research shows that garbage piles produced by leaf-cutter ants emit significant amounts of nitrous oxide—a potent greenhouse gas. Chemical reactions within the organic waste piles produced by leaf ...

About three years ago, a young, impregnated queen started a solitary journey from a tropical forest on the Caribbean island of Trinidad that has now brought her to Chicago with a female entourage of ...

The ancestors of leaf-cutter ants swapped a hunter-gatherer lifestyle for a bucolic existence on small-scale subsistence farms. A new study has revealed that living relatives of the earliest ...