To get to the bottom of the issue, Paul Weldon of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Virginia and Robert ...

In fact, when a section of foraging column gets separated, sometimes the head of the separated section will find its tail. Consequently, the group will go into a death spiral, circling in an "ant ...

They did find that spiders were worse compared to other insects at laterally mimicking the ants, as they were too long and had longer tails. However, this may be because there is not much pressure ...

The ants gather up skin with their jaws and then stab with a stinger on their tail and inject a mild venom. Most people suffer only pain and itching from the bites, but a small percentage of the ...

The strong and potent fragrance will make ants turn tail and run. Peppermint and spearmint in particular are very effective because of their strength of aroma; they can even deter rodents!

A rare image shows a Eurasian jay landing on top of a mound and calmly flattening out its tail to allow the ants to crawl up and attack. “The ants spray the jays as an enemy,” says Tautz.

The light passes over the brilliant blue-green fluorescence of a scorpion clambering alongside the ant trail ... arachnid relatives but lack a stinging tail. Pseudoscorpions commonly get around ...

As if Argentine tegu, brown marmorated stink bug and emerald ash borers weren’t enough invasive species for South Carolina, now comes a resurgence of the Asian needle ant whose painful sting can ...

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