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Narendra et al. describe in an Australian ballista spider a spring-actuated snare that is triggered by green tree ants. They show that the snare’s architecture delivers exceptionally high instantaneou...

Social insect colonies tightly regulate who belongs. A new study shows that ants exposed to foreign individuals become tolerant toward them, but this tolerance fades without contact, and remarkably, o...

Bailly et al. show that ants learn to tolerate genetically distinct non-nestmates through prolonged exposure. Once established, this tolerance persists with occasional re-encounters with ants of the s...

Bailly et al. show that ants learn to tolerate genetically distinct non-nestmates through prolonged exposure. Once established, this tolerance persists with occasional re-encounters with ants of the s...

Nature Ecology & Evolution - Corrie S. Moreau studies the evolution of extreme armour and gut microbiomes in turtle ants.

Hamaguchi, Kinomura and colleagues describe an ant species that lacks workers and males and consists exclusively of queens.

Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.

Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.

International Congress of the Insternational Union for the Study of Social Insects

Background Human activities, including changes in agricultural landscapes, often impact biodiversity through habitat fragmentation. This potentially reduces genetic exchange between previously connect...

A sampling of one of the world's most diverse ant faunas