A leafcutter ant carrying a flower petal inside a new exhibit in the American Museum of Natural History’s insectarium. How To. To Display 500,000 Ants, No Simple Ant Farm Will Do.

In eusocial superorganisms like leafcutter ant colonies, labor is divvied up according to body shape and size, but University ...

Leafcutter ants are instantly recognizable by the vibrant green fragments they carry over their heads, creating endless lines that snake through the forest floor. These ants, ...

Leaf-cutter ants at the American Museum of Natural History in April. The colony was harvested in Trinidad and nurtured in Oregon, and it arrived in New York City last December.

Leafcutter ants live in highly organized colonies where every ant has a job, and now researchers can flip those jobs like a switch. By manipulating just two neuropeptides, scientists can turn ...

From tiny nuisances to powerful predators, ants are some of the most fascinating, diverse and sometimes deadliest insects on ...

While leafcutter ants ability to take their food from farm to table is particularly impressive, there’s several other culinary creatures who are not afraid to mix it up in the kitchen.

Animals were once considered mindless—incapable of thoughts or feelings. These views dominated common thought for millennia, ...

A study conducted by researchers from São Paulo State University (UNESP), in Brazil, and collaborators shows that lemon ...

Parker Gibbons stands atop a leafcutter ant mound in Belize. The 15-by-20-foot mound houses an ant colony with a queen that could be 20 years old and have laid 200 million eggs.

Leafcutter ants, which are prevalent in many parts of the continent, do exactly what their name suggests. After trimming chunks of leaves from foliage the ants tend to form piles of the organic ...