During the COVID-19 pandemic, plexiglass barriers gleamed between tables, sidewalks turned into cafés, and circles on the ...

Fourteen nests of the ponerine ant Paltothyreus tarsatus were excavated in Kenya and in the Ivory Coast. All colonies contained only one mated queen. The worker population varied markedly between ...

The exhibit includes a smell-based interactive, highlighting the range of odors ants use to mark trails, raise alarms and ...

African Matabele ants are fighters — several times a day, they leave their nests on raids, battling termite soldiers and dragging termite workers home for dinner. They drag their fallen comrades back, ...

A study finds that the North African ant species Cataglyphis fortis can learn and retain up to 14 food-associated odors. Returning from foraging runs, desert ants switch from skylight compass ...

The desert ant Cataglyphis fortis inhabits the North African saltpans where it individually forages for dead arthropods. Homing ants rely mainly on path integration, i.e., the processing of ...

A man has shared the moment thousands of ants used their own bodies to create a massive rope-like bridge hanging from the edge of a rooftop to a nearby wasp nest. So far the video has been viewed more ...

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