About three years ago, a young, impregnated queen started a solitary journey from a tropical forest on the Caribbean island of Trinidad that has now brought her to Chicago with a female entourage of ...

The tiny leaf-cutter ant in Costa Rica punches well above its weight. Not only is it super strong, the ant could also help change the world for the better. Marching in long, exemplary lines, each ...

Hitching a ride: A leaf-cutter ant carries a leaf, while smaller ants called minums hitch a ride. These minums act as a defence to make sure parasitic wasps don t lay eggs on the workers carrying the ...

Like any relationship, the key to a successful leaf-cutter ant colony is communication. The colony that "talks" to each other can conquer forces much larger than themselves. For example, army ant ...

The leaf cutter ant (Atta rodona) is a fungus-growing ant that inhabits tropical regions like Manu. Groups of these ants are often seen at night dismantling area vegetation leaf by leaf. During a ...

Insect queens were thought to have an egg-laying monopoly, but nine wood ant species revealed widespread reproductive activity by worker ants. Genetic analysis showed that as many as one in four eggs ...

You have to respect leaf-cutter ants. Bit by bit they slice off the leaves of a tree, carrying to distant nests many times their body weight in little green sections along the tropical-forest floor, ...

Question: We have a problem with cutter ants. I lose my entire crape myrtle tree every year. All of the pest control personnel I ask do not have a solution. Can you please suggest something to ...

Scientists studied an explosion in the population of leaf-cutter ants along roadsides in the Brazilian Cerrado. Though it is an iconic and ecologically important species, leaf-cutter ants can cause ...

In order to control ants, use plants. Researchers at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) and at the State Paulista University (Unesp) in Rio Claro have discovered substances, extracted from ...