Whereas other ant species send out a recon unit to find food sources, army ants prefer a blitz-like strategy; they send out ...

However, some species have diets that are more unusual. Army ants, with their large mandibles and painful stings, may prey on reptiles, birds, or even small mammals. Ant colonies are so tightly ...

A team of scientists set out to determine how many ants live on Earth at any given time. The answer is astounding, to say the ...

Mark Moffett / Minden Pictures Army ant (Eciton burchellii) workers carrying a section of dismembered prey back to the nest. Mark Moffett / Minden Pictures ...

The pressure of feeding so many mouths has made ants the masters of finding food. Many species ferociously hunt their prey, dismember them and return their bounty to the colony, but some also have ...

E. burchellii aggregate on prey items just after capture when prey are larger than can be handled by a single worker. These groups of ants then subdue and dismember the prey (Rettenmeyer 1963, ...

Yoshiaki Hashimoto (Associate Professor, University of Hyogo/Museum of Nature and Human Activities in Hyogo) discovered that Myrmarachne cost the jumping and prey-capture abilities in return for ...