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 ...

Ants are known to kill intruders when they are detected to protect the colony. To avoid attacks, ant crickets use various behaviors that scientists are still figuring out. In this new study, the team ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...