Here's how to identify the insects eating your garden leaves by the evidence they leave behind. If leafcutter bees are ...

which then provides the ants with a stable food supply. Leafcutter ants have the most advanced attine farming systems and ...

ADAM:'These glass boxes and tubes have been built to replicate the underground tunnels and chambers of an ant colony in the wild and they're full of busy leafcutter ants. ADAM:'This is the first ...

Postponed: New Date for this Talk Coming Soon! Ph.D. student Juju Dessert will explore the fascinating world of leafcutter ants. These ants aren’t eating the leaves they carry—they use plant matter to ...

The colony of Atta Cephalotes arrived at the tourist hotspot in August last year and have been settling into their new environment.

A leaf cutter ant, one of the more than 14,000 species alive today. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing ...

Researchers at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom have found that leaf-cutter ants have a simple system to build up healthful microbes on their exoskeletons—a system the researchers ...

When school resumes next week, eight Mound Westonka High School students will have a really good story to tell about what they did over summer vacation. They spent 10 days in Costa Rica wading ...

Ph.D. student Juju Dessert will explore the fascinating world of leafcutter ants. These ants aren’t eating the leaves they carry—they use plant matter to cultivate a special fungus in their ...