One of the candidates for "smallest but mightiest" has to be an ant. You've probably seen ants carry large crumbs, leaves and dead bugs. Even though the things they're usually hauling are small ...

Certain native plants have a mutualistic relationship with these species. The ants carry and bury seeds from parent plants away to other locations, which helps forest regeneration. Since the Asian ...

Instead, choose a bait product that ants can carry back to their colony. This is a far more effective ant killer than pesticide sprays. Deter ants with strong smells. Since ants are sensitive to ...

While watering plants with his mother-in-law in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, Adolfo Vazquez Ceballos spotted the incredible sight of ants working together to carry a lizard carcass up the side ...

(Related: Watch ants carry their wounded off the battlefield.) For lower-leg injuries, colonymates groomed the wound obsessively with their mouthparts, perhaps to remove pathogens that could cause ...

Singapore: Three Singaporean women, including one of Indian origin, will be contesting their charges involving a pro-Palestinian procession to the Istana, Singapore's Presidential Palace, during ...

A July 2024 University of Lausanne study found carpenter ants (Camponotus floridanus) carry out lifesaving amputations on their colony siblings. It is the first known example of a non-human animal ...

Study coauthor Dany Buffat, a graduate student at Switzerland’s University of Lausanne, first observed the ants carrying out the wound cleaning and amputation measures. “The biggest surprise ...