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ant
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We Live In a World of Ants.
A group of ancient wasps decided they’d had enough of flying and lost their wings; what happened next…
A battlefield for ants? New study on ant warfare shows we could manipulate their fights
Bruce Webber, CC BY-SA Samuel Lymbery, Murdoch University; Bruce Webber, CSIRO, and Raphael Didham, The University of Western…
Ants’ Nest-Building Strategies Inspire Innovative Traffic Solutions
In a recent study conducted by UCLA biologists, the intriguing nesting behaviors of ants have yielded insights that…
Australian ant honey inhibits tough pathogens, new research shows
Danny Ulrich and Andrew Dong, Author provided Dee Carter, University of Sydney; Andrew Dong, University of Sydney; Danny…
Smell is the crucial sense that holds ant society together, helping the insects recognize, communicate and cooperate with one another
Ants from different colonies will fight based on smell alone. Joseph Howell, Vanderbilt University, CC BY-ND Laurence Zwiebel,…
Earth harbours 20,000,000,000,000,000 ants – and they weigh more than wild birds and mammals combined
Shutterstock Mark Wong, The University of Western Australia; Benoit Guénard, University of Hong Kong; François Brassard, Charles Darwin…