Long before humans discovered agriculture 10,000 years ago, leafcutter ants started to farm fungi—55 to 60 million years ago. The leafcutter ants don't consume the leaves they collect. Their food does ...
Mankind may know how to farm, but as history shows, ants have been doing it long before humans even walked the Earth; perhaps as early as 65 million years ago. Published in the Proceedings of the ...
Young, infected Lasius neglectus ants will send out an altruistic "kill me" signal to worker ants, a new study finds, as part ...
Ants: Ever since agriculture evolved ca 10.000 years ago, plants have been artificially selected to become the fast growing and highly productive varieties we know today. However, humans were not the ...
High in the trees on the Fiji islands, ants in the species Philidris nagasau are doing something extraordinary. They’ve brought in seeds from several species of a large, lumpy fruit from a plant known ...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark (KTHV) -- The problem of fire ants coming into Arkansas isn't just your imagination. Experts say their population is growing into this area of the nation and could be worse before it ...
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This ancient insect was found in amber… then scientists saw something growing out of its head
A fossilized ant and fly preserved in 99-million-year-old amber have revealed one of the oldest known examples of parasitic ...
The giant African land snail has competition in the "strange and destructive little invasive species" department. A report released last month by University of Texas scientists shows that "crazy ants" ...
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