In leaf-cutter ants, this coating is made of thousands of tiny, plate-like crystals that harden their exoskeleton. This “armor” helps prevent the insects from losing limbs in battles with ...

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 ...

First, two lilies disappeared from the garden. Then, a crape myrtle tree was stripped overnight. Tina Ramirez's house in the Harper's Landing neighborhood of The Woodlands was under attack. Every ...

One researcher in South America estimated that a large leaf cutting ant colony harvested approximately 13,000 pounds of leaves over a 6-year period. This same colony excavated 802 cubic feet of ...

Question: How do we get rid of leaf-cutter ants? — C.H., Cherokee, Texas A Texas leaf cutter ant carrying a leaf that it has removed from a plant. ((File Photo)) Answer: The Texas leaf-cutter ...

The Year the Leaf-Cutter Ants Took Manhattan In January, the American Museum of Natural History’s new insectarium gained 500,000 tenants. It has taken them some time to find their footing.

Memorable activities included observing oil birds, the only nocturnal fruit-eating bird, and watching 2,000 scarlet ibises fly to a roost site on a small island. The animal life which captured my ...

A leaf-cutter ant queen can live up to 20 years, during which time she produces as many as 200 million offspring—and tasks the rest of the colony with their care and upbringing.

A leaf-cutter ant. Leaf-cutter ants harvest leaves, chop them into nutritious pulp, feed the pulp to nourish their cultivated crops of fungus, and harvest the fungus to feed themselves.

You can also get a bug's eye view of the ants' underground nest at the San Diego Zoo's Children's Zoo, something you wouldn't be able to see in the wild. China reacts to Trump's "Golden Dome ...

"There's about 10 million leaf cutter ants outside of this tent and all they're doing is cutting leaf size holes out of my tent," he said. "They are carrying away the nylon into the night and ...