Leafcutter ants appear to remember past infections and respond more aggressively to familiar threats, according to a new ...

NARRATOR:'In a leafcutter colony there is a queen ant, and she is much bigger than the other ants. And her job is to lay eggs. NARRATOR:'Then there are lots of different types of worker ant.

Now, there's one more type of tunnel inside the nest, but only a few ants ever use it. You see, someone needs to find food for the rest of the colony. But running around outside the nest is ...

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 ...

Characteristics of social immune memory were observed in colonies of Atta sexdens exposed to four different pathogenic fungi.

ADAM:'The ants in a colony are not all the same. There are different types of ant, and each have a different job to do from the queen that lays the eggs, to the soldiers that defend the nest.

Parasitic queens, regardless of the type of social parasitism, must all somehow usurp a host colony and gain acceptance within the colony. In some ants, the queens use stealth or brute force to ...

In the aftermath of the raid, Sung Jin-Woo extracts the Ant Queen’s shadow, but her strength turns out much weaker than ...

They act as the colony’s scouts ... react to different plant materials and will signal to the media ants to find other types ...

“There’s a whole colony, including the queen and babies, that you haven’t touched.” In fact, some types of ants will avoid an area that was sprayed and undergo “budding,” which is when ...