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 ...

Recently, I had an insightful conversation with Peter Gloor, a Research Affiliate at the MIT System Design & Management Program, about how we can learn from ... Bees and ants instinctively ...

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 ...