Leafcutter ants appear to remember past infections and respond more aggressively to familiar threats, according to a new ...

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

Characteristics of social immune memory were observed in colonies of Atta sexdens exposed to four different pathogenic fungi.

major ants serve as the colony’s military force and defend the nest. Some major ants can grow 16mm long, which is pretty big ...

the ants are very busy. Everyone has a job to do. If they don't do their job, then other things in the colony don't work properly. NARRATOR:'In a leafcutter colony there is a queen ant ...

Make friends with the natural world at the Butterfly Pavilion. The nonprofit's new interactive exhibit, "Legacies: Invertebrates of Mexico," features millipedes, scorpions, tarantulas and slipper ...

For Atta mexicana, a tropical leafcutter ant that lives here at the northernmost ... filmed one while lying on a bench dusted with baby powder to ward off the colony’s soldier ants, whose bite can ...

ADAM:'These glass boxes and tubes have been built to replicate the underground tunnels and chambers of an ant colony in the wild and they're full of busy leafcutter ants. ADAM:'This is the first ...

Nathan is brought back to life as queen of a huge leafcutter ant colony. The ants need to find food and, because he is utterly selfish, Nathan leads them on a perilous journey to get a bag of his ...

Leafcutter ants recognize the pathogen even a month after first contact. In the photo, a lemon leafcutter cleans fungus cultivated by the species ...