When building a bird nest in ant territory, the best defense could be an offensive fungus. Swollen-thorn acacia trees are aggressively defended by multiple species of ants. And yet, several species of ...

Carpenter ants often get the blame when a tree dies and thousands of the little scurriers are found running in and out the crime scene. The truth is they didn’t do it. The ants were just taking ...

While plants often have mutually beneficial relationships with insects, a tuber in Fiji grows separate compartments for multiple ant species. By Ari Daniel On a hot and sticky day in Fiji in 2014, ...