Virginia may have a new ally in the fight against one of the most invasive insects threatening trees, crops, and other ...

A little more than a week ago, I found ants in my kitchen. A few were helping one another heave a small piece of dog food up my wall toward the window and I spent an embarrassing amount of time ...

If the food is heavy, the ants drag it backwards while occasionally looking forward, and still manage to make their way home. You may have seen ants in your garden carrying a dead insect or some ...

The coordination shown by tiny-brained ants is even more remarkable than has previously been recognized. Film footage shows ...

Most organisms forage, hunt, or use photosynthesis to get food, but around 50 million years ago — long before humans were around — ants began cultivating and growing their own food.

When a few dozen ants get together to carry a crumb or overpowered prey, how is it they know which way to go if they can't see where the nest is? IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience ...

From an evolutionary perspective, group carrying has advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand, the ants can move bigger pieces of food as a team, but then an individual can’t react as ...

Well, “large” and “heavy” for the ants. This was a single Cheerio, taken from a box of the famous cereal brand. Might seem trivial to you, but the scientists estimated that the little ring ...

Among the tens of thousands of ant species, incredible "intelligent" behaviors like crop culture, animal husbandry, surgery, "piracy," social distancing, and complex architecture have evolved.

Ants are among the very few animals, besides humans, that organise among themselves to collectively carry loads far heavier than an individual member of their species.

Ants are renowned weight lifters, able to carry objects many times their own body weight. Acting as a team, they can haul food much larger than themselves, like bigger insects or entire potato chips.

Scientists in Israel have discovered how ants co-operate to move big chunks of food back to their nests. A large team of ants does the heavy lifting but they lack direction, while a small number ...