Tarantulas are hairy so that the army ants cleaning their homes don't eat them alive, a new study suggests. The study, published Aug. 6 in the Journal of Natural History, proposes several new ideas ...

There’s safety, even power, in numbers. One creature’s confrontation with the world seems insurmountable, almost impossible, but an army of those little creatures can move mountains. And no creature ...

Like human armies, army ants spell trouble for anything that finds itself in their path. The insects make a habit of killing organisms, often much larger than themselves, breaking them into pieces and ...

Powell, Scott. 2011. "How much do army ants eat? On the prey intake of a neotropical top-predator." Insectes Sociaux, 58, (3) 317–324. https://doi.org/10.1007 ...

Purpose: To practice interpreting graphical presentation of experimental results; to determine the type of ecological relationship between army ants and ant-following birds. The "step one-step two" ...

The ant photographs of Mark Moffett, a Harvard-trained insect scientist, are often compared to art. Moffett has a unique ability to capture the alien beauty of these deceptively simple creatures. In ...

A chimpanzee carries a stick to use as a tool to eat army ants. The chimpanzees insert these tools into the ant nests until the insects climb on the tool and then eat them. / Chimpanzees are the ...