Some ants have figured out how to keep from getting lost: Build taller anthills. Desert ants that live in the hot, flat salt pans of Tunisia spend their days looking for food. Successful grocery runs ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 95, No. 4 (December, 2012), pp. 914-921 (8 pages) At regional scales, leafcutter ant nest distribution is regulated by environmental factors such as vegetation, ...

Ants that construct turrets for their nests choose what to build them with in an architecturally sound way, even when given unfamiliar materials. South American leafcutter ants (Acromyrmex ...

Certain ants appear to alter their nest networks to prevent epidemics, offering inspiration for disease control interventions in the human world as well. Ants are many things. Like, they're very ...

It is assumed in current literature that the fungus garden cultivated by leaf-cutting ants consists of a single fungus species, the putative mutualistic fungus. However, most studies report a very ...