An ecotour in a tropical rainforest, such as that in Suriname, conducted by a guide who knows the area’s natural history ...

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NARRATOR:'Do you know what these tiny little creatures are? Yes, they're ants! NARRATOR:'There are lots of different types of ant, NARRATOR:'and they live all over the world. These ones are from ...

At its heart is a massive, full-scale ant nest, specially designed and built to allow cameras to see its inner workings. The nest is a new home for a million-strong colony of leafcutter ants from ...

These glass boxes and tubes have been built to replicate the underground tunnels and chambers of an ant colony in the wild, and they're full of busy leafcutter ants. ADAM:'This is the first time ...

Ants are common insects, but they have some unique capabilities—including their legendary communication skills that allow their colonies to function as superorganisms. Invasive ant species are ...

Researchers at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom have found that leaf-cutter ants have a simple system to build up healthful microbes on their exoskeletons—a system the researchers ...

Ph.D. student Juju Dessert will explore the fascinating world of leafcutter ants. These ants aren’t eating the leaves they carry—they use plant matter to cultivate a special fungus in their ...

Audrey Dussutour of the University of Sydney, observed that even on a path as slim as a tree branch, leafcutter ants optimized their going and coming traffic with no entomological pileups.