A single colony can contain millions of ants. Globally, there are at least 20 quadrillion individuals. ... Imagine you are an Oecophylla Weaver Ant. Living a tropical life in the trees, ...

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.

Weaver ants are some of nature’s most skilled architects, and in this video, we team up with AntsCanada to uncover how they build their incredible nests. Using leaves and silk, these ants create ...

But weaver ants have to somehow make that evaluation collectively. In their natural habitat, they regularly build ladders that allow them to move up the tree canopy they call home.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...