As dozens of ants crawled up Jayme Necaise's arms, the entomologist braced for a bite. But the threat of a handful of escapees wasn't enough to distract his focus from the task at hand: transferring ...

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

NEW ORLEANS — It sounds like a horror movie: Biting ants invade by the millions. A camper’s metal walls bulge from the pressure of ants nesting behind them. A circle of poison stops them for only a ...

When it comes to feeding the colony, ants work together to drag large food stuffs back home. On the other hand, when barricades get in the way of their path back home, how capable are ants of ...

Scientists have successfully replicated the behavior of a colony of ants on the move with the use of miniature robots. Scientists have successfully replicated the behaviour of a colony of ants on the ...

How do ant colonies manage the nutrients in their food? Biologists have shown that an ant colony functions like a "collective mouth and gut". The members of a colony are capable of dealing with the ...

Like a brain, an ant colony operates without central control. Each is a set of interacting individuals, either neurons or ants, using simple chemical interactions that in the aggregate generate their ...