These parasites are found throughout the social Hymenoptera (i.e., bees, wasps and ants), and have been most intensely studied in ants. The social parasitism that I address here is restricted to ...

Examples of social groups include packs of wolves and schools of fish (Figure 1). The most highly social animals form tightly knit colonies and include all ants and termites, some bees and wasps ...

Humans are social creatures too ... especially for the larger groups. Not only did groups of ants perform better than individual ants, but in some cases they did better than humans.

Enthusiastically social insects, ants typically live in structured nest ... Ants have a symbiotic relationship with a group of plants called Myrmecophytes, which provide food and the ants protect ...

and those ants or termites that live in social groups. The Mofu relate these social insects to their own politico-religious beliefs as well as to their systems of kinship and social relations.

Diversity of life history traits in the formicine ants. In clockwise direction ... the paraphyletic “rufa” group), which practices dependent and temporary social parasitic colony founding ...

Even over breakfast here in the rain forest of Queensland, Australia, he's pondering what sort of organism an ant colony amounts to, since it is this social group as a whole, not the individual ...

Leafcutter ants appear to remember past infections and respond more aggressively to familiar threats, according to a new ...

Characteristics of social immune memory were observed in colonies of Atta sexdens exposed to four different pathogenic fungi.