New research offers fresh insight into how different morphological types and social roles emerge in ant societies, confirming that size is coupled to caste, with genes ultimately deciding how size and ...
The mass raids of army ants are an iconic collective phenomenon, in which many thousands of ants spontaneously leave their nest to hunt for food, mostly other arthropods. While the structure and ...
A colony of clonal raider ants raised in the Kronauer lab, seen from above. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing ...