What makes the weaver ants so effective is their ability to quickly respond and attack larger intruders. They’re categorized as a “superorganism,” which means that the colony functions like ...

Every ant colony has a queen. It’s her job to lay eggs. ... Weaver ants are the red- and brown-colored ones found in the tropical forests of Africa, India and Australia.

Weaver ants. We’ve all found ourselves facing uncertainty at one point or another. ... weaver ants manage their problems by budgeting their own colony members in a very uncertain solution.

When a weaver ant colony went hunting for small insects on a dry riverbed, this beetle began to pick them off. In an act of defence, one of the ants bit into the predator’s hind leg, but the beetle ...

Everything in the ant hill seems to need the liquid secretions from members of the colony that are in their pupal stage. By Joshua Sokol Orli Snir, a biologist at the Rockefeller University in New ...

Species of ants that have different colony sizes also use other pheromones to send a variety of messages. “We think that in the wild, clonal raider ants usually have a colony size of just tens ...

Ripan was photographing a red weaver ant colony when he spotted this slightly strange individual. It may have the face of an ant but its eight legs give it away – on closer inspection Ripan discovered ...