In the tropics, some ants living high in trees can swim well if an accident — or a scientist — drops them into water. Some form of swimming has evolved independently several times in ants, says Steve ...

Life in the forest canopy is precarious: lose your footing and you could rule yourself out of the evolutionary arms race. Yet this hazard has not deterred many tropical ants from making their homes ...

One ant sinks in water, but a bunch of them? It turns out they can link together and become an unsinkable life raft. New research shows that when fire-ants are dropped in water, they quickly form a ...

The swimming ant, Camponotus schmitzi, which lives exclusively on the fanged pitcher plant, Nepenthes bicalcarata, in Borneo, provides the plant with extra nutrients, at least in part by capturing and ...

A species of ant has evolved sperm that bundle together to increase their swimming speed. Researchers from Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium observed the behaviour in the desert ant, ...

Congress could learn a thing or two about teamwork from Solenopsis invicta, the dreaded fire ant. When swept up by a flood, a colony of the critters — thousands of them — will save themselves by ...

It ain’t exactly a match made in heaven, but it’s a friendship forged in the steamy peat swamp forests of Borneo. That’s where the fanged pitcher plant, or Nepenthes bicalcarata, teams up with a ...

If you’re an insect, don’t mess with the trap-jaw ant Odontomachus bauri. Like other Odontomachus, it uses its massive jaws to attack prey and defend against predators. The jaws are slowly drawn back ...