A little more than a week ago, I found ants in my kitchen. A few were helping one another heave a small piece of dog food up my wall toward the window and I spent an embarrassing amount of time ...

Food-carrying ants use collective problem solving to get through or around obstacles. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2018 / 05 / 180510150226.htm.

When carrying large food items such as worms or maggots, ants often face obstacles in their path. The cooperating ants need to reach a consensus and decide on a new route to their nest.

The footage captures a large ant nest beneath a tree, with worker ants actively maintaining the colony. Scenes show ants carrying food, cleaning themselves, and communicating through their antennae.

Scientists studied the obstacle-clearing behavior of longhorn crazy ants, where a subset of workers temporarily specializes in removing tiny objects blocking the path between the nest and large food ...

He begins by populating a lush, leafy world with ants carrying food, giving the insects expressive faces while drawing them with scientific accuracy. The grasshopper, wearing a straw boater ...

Photographer Thanh Ha Bui, 31, decided to test the weaver ants – famed for their weightlifting skills – as they marched across a branch in his parents’ back garden in Vietnam.

Two ants hung upside down while helping each other carry food along a rope - like Mission Impossible spies. Footage shows the insects from the same colony clinging to each other, with one of them ...

Among the tens of thousands of ant species, incredible "intelligent" behaviors like crop culture, animal husbandry, surgery, "piracy," social distancing, and complex architecture have evolved.