A 2009 study examining the sleep/wake cycles of S. invicta found that the worker ants averaged a mammoth 253 sleep episodes ...

When army ants come to town, you move out, stay perfectly still, or die. They arrive in a part of the forest by the thousands ...

More information: Louis Bell-Roberts et al, Larger colony sizes favoured the evolution of more worker castes in ants, Nature Ecology & Evolution (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41559-024-02512-7 Provided by ...

Bees feed on flowers; wasps hunt other insects; ants "feed on a whole variety of things," from flowers to dead animals, says University of Georgia entomologist Ken Ross. Morphology also differs: ...

Argentine ants have been found on six continents, from South America to Japan. Researchers are studying their impact.

DURING experiments on the foraging methods of the ant Monomorium pharaonis (L.) in Nigeria, a well-defined response of worker ants to the dead bodies of workers of their own species has been observed.

The social parasitism that I address here is restricted to the ants that form mixed species nests and depend on labor provided by the host species workers. These nests typically have two or more ...

Ants are common insects, but they have some unique capabilities—including their legendary communication skills that allow their colonies to function as superorganisms. Invasive ant species are ...

NARRATOR:'Inside their colony, the ants are very busy. Everyone has a job to do. If they don't do their job, then other things in the colony don't work properly. NARRATOR:'In a leafcutter colony ...

ADAM:'This is Planet Ant. A giant, man-made ant home built especially above ground to allow us to investigate the incredible lives ADAM:'of these tiny creatures. These glass boxes and tubes have ...