But what if you were an ant? What could social insect living do for you? Every individual worker in an ant colony is part of ... Imagine you are an Oecophylla Weaver Ant. Living a tropical life ...

According to new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, weaver ants manage their problems by budgeting their own colony members in a very uncertain solution.

In new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we show weaver ants (Oecophylla ... Building a chain comes at a cost to the colony. Ants in the chain can ...

They leave in search of more food when the stock in the colony drops below a certain threshold. All this continues until the colony has been fed. Individual ants are not so smart, or they could be ...

This body of work should be both original and outstanding. When a weaver ant colony went hunting for small insects on a dry riverbed, this beetle began to pick them off. In an act of defence, one of ...

Forest dwelling weaver ants are a common species in the Kingdom ... including moving eggs away from the sun and making sure they have enough oxygen. Within each colony, the roles are very clearly ...