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Ants are among the most familiar creatures on Earth, yet scientists continue to uncover abilities that seem almost ...

In the world of social creatures, from humans to ants, the spread of behaviors through a group—known as social contagion—is a well-documented phenomenon. This process, driven by social imitation and ...

Just like human societies, ant societies have a division of labor. Within a colony, some individuals feed the young while others are soldiers who protect the colony from intruders. New research across ...

The unusual life cycles of ants are deeply rooted in their social nature. Ants and other social insects like termites, some bees, and certain wasps live in colonies, in which most individuals never ...

Carpenter ants, which include more than a thousand species in the genus Camponotus, nest in wood and can be destructive to ...