To Costa Ricans, the leaf-cutter ant can be one of the biggest pests to cause severe agricultural decay in parts of the country. To tourists, a trail of the hard-working red insects can appear as a ...

The leaf cutter ant (Atta rodona) is a fungus-growing ant that inhabits tropical regions like Manu. Groups of these ants are often seen at night dismantling area vegetation leaf by leaf. During a ...

About three years ago, a young, impregnated queen started a solitary journey from a tropical forest on the Caribbean island of Trinidad that has now brought her to Chicago with a female entourage of ...

In early January, my wife and I returned from a vacation to tropical beaches and rainforests on Trinidad and Tobago, the most southern of the Caribbean Islands. The trip was expressly to learn about ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WINCHESTER, United Kingdom — Although tiny, ...

Leaf-cutter ants rely on their razor-sharp mandibles to snip leaves to pieces. But over time, their mandibles dull. Physicist Robert Schofield of the University of Oregon looked at what happens when ...

You have to respect leaf-cutter ants. Bit by bit they slice off the leaves of a tree, carrying to distant nests many times their body weight in little green sections along the tropical-forest floor, ...

The “Ants and Agriculture” exhibit in the Microbial Sciences Building closed Thursday with staff and students gathering to say their goodbyes to the ant colony. Forty people watched as the Currie Lab ...

Like any relationship, the key to a successful leaf-cutter ant colony is communication. The colony that "talks" to each other can conquer forces much larger than themselves. For example, army ant ...

Argentine ants, those nasty invaders of homes around the world, have yielded their innermost secrets to an international team of biologists who have deciphered their genetic code, revealing new clues ...

A new exhibition at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Conn., gives visitors a whiff, from “chocolate-y” to stinky blue cheese.