The moving boxes are large and heavy, but we are determined to carry them all in one trip, even if that means we can't see ...

Overloaded leafcutter ants develop “blind spots” that slow their movement - showing how nature’s most efficient workers hit ...

A study conducted by researchers from São Paulo State University (UNESP), in Brazil, and collaborators shows that lemon leafcutter ants (Atta sexdens) exhibit behaviors that go beyond so-called social ...

Leafcutter ants of the American tropics exemplify animals that exhibit superorganism status, advanced social organization and symbiosis. As you walk through the jungle you become aware of these ...

Celebrate Thanksgiving with some of the animal kingdom’s greatest cooks, including marshmallow-roasting apes and salt-sprinkling monkeys Jack Tamisiea In the tropical forests of Central and South ...

Great article! I saw some of these ants a couple of months ago, and I wondered why they were gathering leaves from a plant that was relatively far from their nest when there were plants that were much ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the living world, from microbes to ecosystems. Long before humans discovered agriculture 10,000 years ago, leafcutter ants ...

Central-place foraging theory has been unable to explain the load selection behavior of leaf-cutting ants (Atta spp., Attini: Formicidae). We suggest that this is due to incomplete consideration of ...

Few ant species construct cleared trails. Among those that do, leaf-cutting Atta ants build the most prominent networks, with single colonies clearing debris and obstructions from hundreds of meters ...

An ant’s normal mode of locomotion is crawling. However, at certain times of the year, something remarkable happens. At certain times, some ants in the colony develop wings, leave the nest, and fly.

A complex genetic analysis has biologists re-evaluating some long-held beliefs about the way societies evolved following the invention of agriculture -- by six-legged farmers. A complex genetic ...