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 ...

Forest dwelling weaver ants are a common species in the ... making sure they have enough oxygen. Within each colony, the roles are very clearly defined. When a queen can no longer breed, she must ...

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 ...

Researchers are studying a species of ant, the weaver ant Oecophylla smaragdina ... to a gamble," the authors of a new paper write. "The colony must invest a proportion of its capital (number ...

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 ...