Despite their tiny size, ants are able to accomplish absolutely incredible feats. They can build amazingly intricate nests, ...

More tunnels in ant nests means more food for colony Date: October 20, 2015 Source: University of California - San Diego Summary: A study of the underground 'architecture' of harvester ant nests ...

Plus, he adds “looking at ants all day is my dream job.” This two-year-old colony has a nest carved from aerated concrete and a mossy habitat filled with 3D-printed items. Photograph by Eden ...

Eventually a massive colony of wood ants took up residence in the soil over the bunker. There was just one problem: the ants built their nest directly over a vertical ventilation pipe. When the ...

since the last time it was at the nest. A red wood ant colony remembers its trail system leading to the same trees, year after year, although no single ant does. In the forests of Europe, they forage ...

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 ...

Individual ants perform specific tasks for the colony, like supplying food, cleaning the nest, defending the colony, etc. There’s no ‘control room’ telling which ant what to do, yet they ...