When the weather heats up, ants are quick to make themselves at home in your home. Summer is peak season for these tiny ...

Here, the ants (about 120 of them) have been tricked into transferring an object that is much larger than anything they would naturally carry. Photo by Ehud Fonio and Ofer Feinerman ...

Ants aren't what you want to see crawling around in your house, in fact, the only thing worse would be if there were ants ...

Leafcutter ants farm fungus on an industrial scale. To protect their crop, they apply antibiotics produced by bacteria carried on their chests. New research shows that leafcutter ants also have ...

Crazy Ants Cooperate To Carry Food. A new study shows that informed individual ants help guide larger groups. By Brooke Borel. Published Jul 28, 2015 7:00 PM EDT. Ehud Fonio and Ofer Feinerman.

Warrior Ants Carry Injured Comrades Home : Shots - Health News Don't call it empathy, scientists say. These termite-eating ants only retrieve injured comrades on the way home from a hunt, not before.

A United flight arriving at Newark Liberty International Airport from Italy had to be taken out of service after ants from a carry-on bag appeared in part of the cabin.

Carry me home It’s an ant-help-ant world. Ants have been seen carrying their wounded comrades back to the nest after raids on termite colonies ­- an unexpected behaviour in social insects that ...

Still, one large mystery remains: “We have no idea how they choose a specific colony,” Dr. Baer said. So far, the researchers have not been able to get ants they have collected to perform the ...

The ants did have a bit of help with this, of course. BBDO Düsseldorf conceived of the project and tapped leafcutter ads from the Cologne Zoo for the rally. They may be small, but their leafy ...

Carpenter ants carry out lifesaving amputations on their colony siblings to save them. Skip to main content. Scientific American. August 15, 2024. 4 min read.