For centuries we have believed that humans were unique in our ability to farm and cultivate our own food. However, it turns out that ants grow their own food too. Have you ever seen a trail of ants ...

Among the tens of thousands of ant species, incredible ‘intelligent’ behaviors like crop culture, animal husbandry, surgery, ‘piracy’, social distancing, and complex architecture have evolved. Yet at ...

May 12 (UPI) --For a single ant, the world can be an overwhelmingly big place. To safely navigate their environs, ants rely on collective cognition. According to a new study, published Tuesday in the ...

There are usually ants at a picnic. You can see them and try to avoid them. But it is not possible to see, taste or smell dangerous bacteria that can cause food-borne illness if you mishandle the food ...

Scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama discovered that carrying oversized loads limits the ability to perceive the trail in leafcutter ants, akin to blind spots ...