Ants are complex and fascinating creatures that have been around since the dinosaurs. But because of their tiny size, it's ...

These polymers can be left behind as waste products with no further use. A specialized microbial community composed of fungus, leafcutter ants, and bacteria is known to naturally degrade plants, ...

which then provides the ants with a stable food supply. Leafcutter ants have the most advanced attine farming systems and have proven resilient across over 15 million years of climate change and ...

The findings have been reported in Science. There are four types of farming ants, which are classified based on how they cultivate fungi. For example, leafcutter ants practice higher agriculture, in ...

In fact, ants can be useful scavengers and pollinators. Their tunneling and burrowing activities can aerate and enrich the soil. With the exception of leaf-cutter ants, they also rarely cause any ...

(CNN) — You have probably seen leaf-cutter ants carrying bits of plants, maybe in a nature documentary, at a science museum or in the “Circle of Life” song at the beginning of the 1994 ...

ADAM:'These glass boxes and tubes have been built to replicate the underground tunnels and chambers of an ant colony in the wild and they're full of busy leafcutter ants. ADAM:'This is the first ...