Concrete Poured Into Ant Colony Reveals Insect Megalopolis. By Sally Schneider. March 15, 2011. Share. Save. A video from Ants: Nature's Secret Power shows off the complicated, seemingly human ...

Researchers thought colder temperatures and higher elevations could stop the march of invasive fire ants. Mother Nature had ...

'Once the ant turned its back on the colony and walked away, it was on a death march. And the parasite was in the driver's seat' Mindy Weisberger. Tue, April 15, 2025 at 9:00 AM UTC.

Everything in the ant hill seems to need the liquid secretions from members of the colony that are in their pupal stage. By Joshua Sokol Orli Snir, a biologist at the Rockefeller University in New ...

For the first time, an extremely rare ant has been seen alive.. Tyrannomyrmex rex (T. rex for short) had eluded scientists since 2003, when entomologist Fernando Fernández revealed that a single ...

Species of ants that have different colony sizes also use other pheromones to send a variety of messages. “We think that in the wild, clonal raider ants usually have a colony size of just tens ...

These networks are so nuanced that the colony itself is sometimes referred to as an organism—or “superorganism”—in its own right, with individual ants as its component parts.

According to a new study out of Rockefeller University, the way that ant colonies make group decisions closely mimics the way neurons behave in the human brain.In other words, they follow a colony ...

A giant colony of ants stretching 100km (62 miles) has been discovered in the Australian city of Melbourne, threatening local insect species. The ants, which were imported from Argentina, are ranked ...

Scientists who were attempting to map an abandoned ant hill didn't expect to find a mega-city when they shot the hill full of cement, but that's exactly what they discovered. Over three days ...