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From ants moving indoors to ants appearing in your potted plants because they hitched a ride from the plant nursery, there ...

Are aphids overrunning your garden? Margie Siegal gives tips to rid yourself of these little insects—and the ants that farm ...

Cordyceps is a genus of parasitic fungi known for infecting insects and taking over their bodies. It manipulates the host’s ...

Crickets are parasites—for some ant colonies. The species of ant crickets from the Myrmecophilus genus can infiltrate ant colonies, despite the potentially lethal defences that ants have ...

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Ants and humans competed in navigating a maze with a large load. While humans outperformed individually, ant groups excelled collectively, showing strategic coordination and persistence. The study ...

Participants were tasked with moving a large T-shaped object The researchers designed two sets of mazes to accommodate both ants and humans The ants used were Paratrechina longicornis, commonly known ...

What threats could China pose to the U.S. if it were able to exert strategic control over the canal?

Now, an interesting new study reveals some unexpected findings about group problem-solving abilities across species, specifically comparing how ants and humans tackle complex spatial challenges.