"Ants are a Swiss Army knife," said Jensen, a biologist who studies the symbiotic relationship between ants and agriculture ...

Long-legged and lithe, they so aggressively dominate huge territories in the forest canopies that locals simply call them the tree ants. Or weaver ants, because they make their soccer-ball-size ...

Chicatana ants use a type of pyrazine as a trail pheromone. Weaver ants were characterized as having a nutty, sweet and ...

We wanted to film hundreds of Australian weaver ants cooperating to build a nest from leaves. To secure the leaves these ants do something seen nowhere else in nature - they use their own grubs as ...

This body of work should be both original and outstanding. When a weaver ant colony went hunting for small insects on a dry riverbed, this beetle began to pick them off. In an act of defence, one of ...

3. Weaver ants work together When Australian weaver ants build their homes, it’s all hands on deck, even if you don’t have any. These ants employ every member of the clan (even the babies ...

“Coriander, salt, onion, chilli… and red weaver ants,” she says, adding with a smile, “No lime,” just as I pucker my lips at the tangy sourness of the ants’ formic acid. It is deliciou ...

For another experiment in Senegal, they collected weaver ants from mango orchards to investigate the bacterial communities associated with ants, discovering that they also leave microbial ...