Army ants (Eciton burchellii) are known for their vast foraging raids. Hundreds of thousands of ants flow like a river from their nest site, scouring the jungle as they prey on anything unable to ...
Mark Moffett, a research associate at the National Museum of Natural History, specializes in capturing the often-overlooked ...
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Small ants observed cleaning large ants in the Arizona desert — a new behavior in insects
Learn more about a newly observed insect behavior in which smaller ants clean larger ants.
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Some smaller ants will clean bigger ants and scientists aren’t sure what’s in it for either of them
In 2006, biologist Mark Moffett noticed an unusual behavior. The usually aggressive harvester ants would park themselves near ...
In the deserts of southeastern Arizona, harvester ants congregate with serrated jaws agape outside the nests of much smaller cone ants. However, the nests’ inhabitants are not threatened. Instead, ...
Add ants to the list of animals that can fly. Worker ants, the wingless kind. Scientists call it gliding, or directed aerial descent. But just as one might say that flying squirrels fly, so do a type ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio—High hopes may help move a rubber tree plant (as the old song goes), but the real secret to the ant's legendary strength may lie in its tiny neck joint. In the Journal of Biomechanics, ...
Ants just naturally prompt comparisons with space aliens, and renowned naturalist and emeritus Harvard University professor Edward O. Wilson isn’t two pages into his latest book, “Tales From the Ant ...
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