An 8-year-old’s casual backyard observation has transformed our understanding of an intricate relationship between ants, ...
Ants are known to kill intruders when they are detected to protect the colony. To avoid attacks, ant crickets use various ...
Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have discovered sophisticated behavioral strategies that enable parasitic crickets ...
Parasitic crickets survive in dangerous ant colonies using genius dodging and distancing moves while staying hidden in safe ...
Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have identified the behavioral strategies that parasitic cricket species employ to ...
Escamoles, sometimes called ant egg caviar, are a delicacy in Mexico. These ant larvae can cost over $50 per pound. And when they're exported prices can double. But finding escamoles isn't easy.
She is the mother of all the ants. That means she lays the eggs, that hatch into the larvae which in turn, become the adult ants. ADAM:'The ants in a colony are not all the same. There are ...
The engineering and defensive skills of red wood ants help the endangered species transcend its small stature in the natural world.
The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. The Florida Entomologist Vol. 92, No. 3, Sep., 2009 Ant Tending of Miami Blue Butterfly Larv... The larvae of many lycaenid butterflies (Lepidoptera: ...
Tanaka and colleagues studied this behavior in Myrmecophilus tetramorii, a "brood parasite" that sustains itself within host colonies by consuming dead insects and ant larvae. The researchers ...