The individual animals and their behaviour can be compared to the cells and organs in a body – the workers correspond to muscle cells, the queen ant to the ovaries or testicles, and the wound ...

These alien ants can change the dynamics of an ecosystem, consume resources, and kill other organisms. This damage adds up: From 1930 to 2021, invasive ants caused an estimated $51 billion in ...

“We often have the idea that insects function like pre-programmed robots,” says Nehring. “Our study provides new evidence that, on the contrary, ants also learn from their experiences and can hold a ...

In a recent conversation with Peter Gloor at MIT, we talk about swarm creativity, COINs, AI and a collective human-AI future.

Nor were the individual ants. All animals are limited in different ways. We humans are gifted with the ability to study other species and learn from them — so we can fly like birds and dive like ...

Finally one day I thought, why not set up a small humble shop, and gather ant hobbyists together? We can share more interests, and have a place where people can get certain ant keeping supplies.