Ants Help Researchers Understand Why Biodiversity is Higher in Tropical Regions
It’s a puzzle that has confounded biologists for centuries: the earth’s tropical regions are home to an enormous variety of plant and animal species, but…
It’s a puzzle that has confounded biologists for centuries: the earth’s tropical regions are home to an enormous variety of plant and animal species, but…
Having built their nest over the vertical ventilation pipe of an old nuclear weapon bunker in Poland, every year a large number of wood ants…
Six new species of subterranean ants from the genus Prionopelta have been discovered in Madagascar and the islands of Seychelles. Dubbed Dracula ants by these…
The zombie-ant fungus is part of the Ophiocordyceps genus, and its strange way of infecting worker ants’ heads and controlling them to distribute more spores…
New research on a parasite that fights zombie-ant fungus, an infestation that takes over the brain and then ejects its spores out of the ant’s…
While studying desert ants, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology discovered that ants were able to use magnetism and vibrational signals in…
Ant-nest invaders are in for a shock when they mess with the African ant species Crematogaster striatula. These ants have venom so potent that it…
Humans have all kinds of security to protect our homes, whether it is an advanced home security system, a barking dog, or just a motion-activated…