Researchers have identified the behavioral strategies that parasitic cricket species employ to infiltrate and inhabit host ant colonies. Their research demonstrates that these crickets use 'distancing ...

Ants are social insects and live in large communities. There are sometimes disputes - especially between rival colonies. A study has now shown for the first time that ants learn from bad experiences ...

The ant scurries along on six nimble legs. It catches up to its peers, a line of antennaed bugs roaming the winding surface ...

From searching for food to protecting the colony, teamwork is essential in the complex and busy world of ants. However, did ...

Art has been behind — and indeed at the core of — every great revolution and social movement. There a mountain of important ...

Fire ants build large colonies containing thousands of individual ants, with some even having multiple queens. They are omnivores, with their diet consisting of plants and other insects. Their ...

Plant diseases cost the global economy hundreds of billions of dollars every year, with between 20 to 40 percent of global crop production lost to crop diseases and pests. Climate change is ...

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

When scientists constructed a puzzle-solving task and pitted teams of people against teams of ants, the insects sometimes proved to be the smarter species. That’s not to denigrate human intelligence — ...

Dec. 6, 2024 — Desert ants of the Cataglyphis nodus species use the Earth's magnetic field for spatial orientation, but rely on a different component of the field than other insects. The survey ...

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A new study has found that chimpanzees are more likely to urinate after observing a fellow chimp do so, particularly if they ...