Long-legged and lithe, they so aggressively dominate huge territories in the forest canopies that locals simply call them the tree ants. Or weaver ants, because they make their soccer-ball-size ...

For another experiment in Senegal, they collected weaver ants from mango orchards to investigate the bacterial communities associated with ants, discovering that they also leave microbial ...

We wanted to film hundreds of Australian weaver ants cooperating to build a nest from leaves. To secure the leaves these ants do something seen nowhere else in nature - they use their own grubs as ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Of major importance in realizing the potential of edible insects as a core element in improving food security, sustainable food production ...

This body of work should be both original and outstanding. Armed with slicing jaws, formic acid and an intrepid attitude, a mob of weaver ants attacked an Indian queenless ant. ‘A hundred or so ...

This body of work should be both original and outstanding. When a weaver ant colony went hunting for small insects on a dry riverbed, this beetle began to pick them off. In an act of defence, one of ...

3. Weaver ants work together When Australian weaver ants build their homes, it’s all hands on deck, even if you don’t have any. These ants employ every member of the clan (even the babies ...

pathogen-combating ants are typically already present — such as weaver ants in mango orchards. If the species already dwell there, this could increase their numbers and efficiency. The technique ...

Conversely, Jensen said farmers can simply leave sugar-water solutions, cat food, or chicken bones, among any number of kitchen scraps, in fruit orchards where beneficial, pathogen-combating ants are ...