Almost wherever you go on Earth, you will find ants! The only places that do not have any are Antarctica, Greenland, Iceland, and some island nations. Not only are they widespread, but there are also ...

Honey pot ants have a unique means of surviving in the deserts where they live—they store excess food in the bodies of some of their workers. Honey pot workers gather food just like any other ant, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Paraponera clavata, the giant tropical ant, has previously been reported to be an exclusively ground nesting species. In this note we report ...

Among them, one species stands out for its extraordinary size, the Dinoponera ant, widely recognised as the world’s largest ...

If an infection takes hold in an ants’ nest, it could spell disaster for the whole colony. But some worker ants appear to have a workaround for that. When exposed to a pathogen, black garden ants ...