Tarantulas are hairy so that the army ants cleaning their homes don't eat them alive ... complex relationships between tarantulas and other animals by reviewing previous scientific studies ...

ADAM:'Our ants eat fungus but some animals eat ants ... the soil which helps plants to grow, which means more animals can live in the area. This increase in diversity close to the colony has ...

The resin of conifer trees contains antibiotic chemicals and is harvested by the European wood ant to disinfect their nests. A large nest can contain up to 20kg of resin. Ants live in colonies ...

Interloper animals that live in ant colonies are known as ant ... This brood parasite survives in an ant colony by eating dead insects and ant larvae. The team found that most of the behaviors ...

The presence of wings indicates an ant’s fertility—ants with wings are either queens or the drones whose job it is to mate with them. Enthusiastically social insects, ants typically live in ...

Covering significant parts of North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, this “megacolony” of Argentine ants is the largest collaborative unit ever recorded among animals. Argentine ants from ...

He has especially devoted his attention to the curious and complicated relations which exist between ants and their domestic animals. Of these, he gives a list comprising no less than 1246 species!

Wild chimpanzees have long been known to rely on their powerful memories to know where and in what trees they can find ripe ...

Researchers in Japan discovered that ants placed in isolation die younger due to an accumulation of reactive oxygen, a finding that may lead to ways to reduce stress levels in animals and help ...