Leafcutter ants live in highly organized colonies where every ant has a job, and now researchers can flip those jobs like a ...

For example, leafcutter ants can build organized lanes of traffic: One lane going up tree branches to the food source and another for those returning with the harvest. Army ants, commonly found in ...

Do ants poop? Discover how these social insects have developed ingenious methods to manage their waste.

Ants are common in the garden, ... fire ants or leafcutter ants, ... upon inspection, find an army of ants on its on stems and foliage.

A study conducted by researchers from São Paulo State University (UNESP), in Brazil, and collaborators shows that lemon leafcutter ants (Atta sexdens) exhibit behaviors that go beyond so-called ...