The engineering and defensive skills of red wood ants help the endangered species transcend its small stature in the natural world.

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 to live in a narrow temperature range to grow, so that nest sports ...

Nests can be managed using everything from diatomaceous ... If you don't have a bunch of big ant mounds, you can actually dig ...

concluding that the apes also rely on memory to locate underground ant nests, rather than simply stumbling across nests opportunistically. The chimpanzees were also observed using tools and ...

All encounters were a thrill, but for me, the biggest thrill was encountering ... I address here is restricted to the ants that form mixed species nests and depend on labor provided by the host ...