Which is basically a giant nursery: a nice, cozy place to raise babies. A lot of babies. Their mother, the queen, roams around the nest while laying 1,500 eggs a day! Now, all those baby ants need ...

Without her, the colony would die.' A leafcutter ant colony from Trinidad has been rescued and re-housed in a giant man-made nest in the UK, allowing an in-depth study into their normally hidden ...

In this way, it was possible to test various hypotheses to discover the coordination mechanism used for building nests. In the case of ants, which—besides termites—are the other major group of ...

A giant, man-made ant home ... They depend on the leaves and in turn nutrients from the ants' nest are released back into the surrounding soil, which encourages plant life to grow, which helps ...

Insects like ants heal their fellow species, and they even perform surgeries. Biologist Erik Frank is researching their ...

Social behavior in insects, kin recognition system of honey bees, nest defense in honey bees, and social biology of the giant tropical ant. Kin recognition studies are designed to examine the various ...