Several species of Piper (Piperaceae) live in symbiosis with Pheidole bicornis (Formicidae-Myrmicinae) on the southern Pacific slope of Costa Rica. These plants produce small single-celled food bodies ...

About one tenth of the world's ants are close relatives; they all belong to just one genus out of 323, called Pheidole. New research suggests that Pheidole evolved the same way twice, once to take ...

Supersoldiers are the biggest, baddest ants of the Pheidole ant genus. They loom above their ant brethren with dramatic bulbous heads and sprout two vestigial wings during development. It wasn’t until ...

One massive group of ants has a secret supersoldier programme that’s been locked away for 35 to 60 million years. The Pheidole ants are an exceptionally diverse group with over 1,100 species. They’re ...

The distinctive dorsal spines found on two new species of highly adorned Pheidole ants may help to support the ants' massive heads, according to a study published July 27, 2016 in the open-access ...

Biological invasions can lead to the reassembly of communities and understanding and predicting the impacts of exotic species on community structure and functioning are a key challenge in ecology. We ...

Scientists at McGill University in Montreal made news recently by creating superstrong soldier ants. They created the supersoldier ants by activating the ants' gene with methropene, a juvenile hormone ...

This news release is available in Japanese. About one tenth of the world's ants are close relatives; they all belong to just one genus out of 323, called Pheidole. "If you go into any tropical forest ...