Each weaver ant colony inhabits from half a dozen to more than a hundred nests at any given time, forming a metropolis of boroughs and suburbs connected by busy commuter routes. A hierarchy of ...

Each Argentine ant colony has multiple queens, allowing the colony to expand rapidly both in population and territorial control. Today, native Californian ant species like harvester ants and ...

Living with the enemy The jumping spider Phintella piatensis hangs out with Asian weaver ants ... By building specialized nests near the ants' colonies (thickly woven, cocoon-like structures ...

Crickets are parasites—for some ant colonies. The species of ant crickets from the Myrmecophilus genus can infiltrate ant colonies, despite the potentially lethal defences that ants have ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Parasitic crickets survive within ant colonies by employing two main evasion strategies: distancing and dodging. Distancing involves moving directly away from ...

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 ...

This body of work should be both original and outstanding. 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 ...