In this video, I raised a queen trap-jaw ant into an entire ant colony and simulated real-world events to observe the ants' reactions. The unexpected ending sets the stage for another video. #ants ...

Humans are not the only animals to have a dedicated health care system. Some super-organized ant species not only recognize that their comrade is injured but actually carry them back to the ant nest ...

Nigel Andrew is an editor of Austral Ecology and subject editor (Zoology) for PeerJ. He played no part in the double-blind peer-review process of the Austral Ecology research paper this article draws ...

A rare Japanese ant is the only species known to lack female workers and males; all of its young develop into parasitic queens that try to take over other colonies. When you purchase through links on ...

An ant that can turn carbon dioxide in the air into dolomite stone in its exoskeleton may hold clues to how humans can sequester greenhouse gases to avert climate disaster. Fungus-farming ants forage ...

Some butterfly species can’t grow unless they trick ants into taking them home with a complex rhythmic signal. By Rebecca Dzombak Rebecca Dzombak has reported on parasitic ant queens and the number of ...

This project is an educational and research-oriented implementation that benchmarks and compares different metaheuristic algorithms for solving VRPTW problems. The VRPTW is a classic NP-hard ...

Objective Sport Mental Health Assessment Tool 1 (SMHAT-1) ensures comprehensive and reliable mental health screening in athletes. However, its triage’s predictive validity varies depending on the ...

Life may look like a paradise for beetles living in ant colonies. Plump, wriggling ant larvae and helpless eggs sit waiting to be devoured, while hundreds of thousands of ants stand at the ready to ...