Leafcutter ants of the American tropics exemplify animals that exhibit superorganism status, advanced social organization and symbiosis. As you walk through the jungle you become aware of these ...

The Butterfly Pavilion welcomed a new species of critter this month, and it’s already making itself at home. The new leafcutter ant exhibit showcases the lives of these invertebrates, who are known ...

Humans are not the only farmers on Earth. The many species of leafcutter ants that inhabit the region stretching from Argentina to the southern United States are incredibly sophisticated food growers.

A surprising discovery of how ant communities build immense networks has prompted a rethink on how certain insect communities organise themselves. Each leafcutter colony can carve out nearly 3km of ...

Celebrate Thanksgiving with some of the animal kingdom’s greatest cooks, including marshmallow-roasting apes and salt-sprinkling monkeys Jack Tamisiea In the tropical forests of Central and South ...

For centuries we have believed that humans were unique in the ability to farm and cultivate food. However, it turns out that ants have been growing their own food well before humans ever planted a ...

For centuries we have believed that humans were unique in our ability to farm and cultivate our own food. However, it turns out that ants grow their own food too. Have you ever seen a trail of ants ...

Biologists have discovered that queens of the ant genus Acromyrmex are flexible in the event that they cannot found their own colony. The queens of other species die as soon as they can no longer ...

Living in rural Brazos County, Raymond Wood is used to dealing with his share of critters. What he never expected, however, was an explosive colony of Texas leafcutter ants that have built a mound on ...

Ant colonies are one of the wonders of nature: complex, organised… and mysterious. This programme reveals the secret, underground world of the ant colony, in a way that’s never been seen before. At ...

The fact that cows produce a ton of greenhouse gas in the form of methane is science factoid that people tend to pull out in casual climate discussions (you have those, don’t you?). As it turns out, ...

Leafcutter ants of the American tropics exemplify animals that exhibit super-organism status, advanced social organization and symbiosis. As you walk through the jungle you become aware of these ...