"Arboreal weaver ants are polydomous, with several leaf nests making up a single colony of up to a million ... "Workers that leave the nest to forage are far more likely to encounter rivals ...

A new study led by the University of Melbourne has shown that weaver ants share a collective ... other instantly by their unique colours. The ant colony collective memory gives them an edge ...

Each weaver ant colony inhabits from half a dozen to more ... even as some team members leave and new workers join in. All the while, different platoons are out tending scale insects and other ...

The raid against the termite colony was a bloodbath. In the tunnels and on the dusty earth, termites fell by the score and warrior ants lost limbs and perished under the pincer shear of terrible ...

Such an act is not unusual in a weaver ant colony, and triggers no alarm amongst the workers or soldiers. Why has the ant spider evolved to carry out such an elaborate deception? For the Kerengga ...

Weaver ants ... screen. Ant queens have no such worries. They lay their eggs, they hatch their little minions, and they expend those minions for the greater good of the colony.

Weaver ants are colony insects that live in trees, building nests from woven leaves and preying on other insects. Because ants work cooperatively, they are able to overbear insects that are many ...

THE humble but industrious ant has long served as a metaphor for the economic virtues of simplicity, parsimony and diligence. But in the case of weaver ants in Africa, this description may be more ...

“I have been observing a colony of weaver ants and their mimic jumping spiders in Mysuru for about three years without observing any instances where an ant mimic jumping spider was captured by an an ...