Have you ever imagined a bustling city beneath your feet, pulsing with life and humming with purpose—yet entirely hidden from view? Deep in the heart of tropical forests, an astonishing community ...

Leafcutter ants of the American tropics exemplify animals that exhibit super-organism status, advanced social organization and symbiosis. As you walk through the jungle you become aware of these ...

Creating the new leafcutter exhibit was a six-year journey that took the museum’s team — and the ants — from a farm in Trinidad, where the tangerine-size colony was collected, to a lab in ...

In the tropical forests of Central and South America, leafcutter ants retrieve fresh plant material that serves as the fodder for a complex suite of fungal gardens tended by the colony.

The Butterfly Pavilion welcomed a new species of critter this month, and it’s already making itself at home. The new leafcutter ant exhibit showcases the lives of these invertebrates, who are ...

Watch the Video Click here to watch on YouTube For centuries we have believed that humans were unique in our ability to farm and cultivate our own food. However, it turns out that ants grow their own ...

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.

The Microbe Place, housed in the Microbial Sciences Building main lobby, exhibits some of the research within the department of bacteriology — including the leaf cutter ant colony. The ant colony ...

Leafcutter ants (Atta sexdens) exhibit a form of "social immune memory," recognizing and intensifying their response to a pathogenic fungus even 30 days post-exposure. This involves increased ...

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.

A colony of leafcutter ants can defoliate an entire tree in a single day. ©Matyas Rehak/Shutterstock.com. Leafcutter ants live only in South America, Mexico, Central America, ...

The extraordinary division of labor within a colony of leafcutter ants allows them to become top-notch agriculturists. News Sports Business Go Play Opinion Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals.