And then there’s Sceptobius lativentris. Parker’s research revealed that the adult beetles turn off their ability to produce CHCs altogether. This likely allows Sceptobius to go stealth long enough to ...
A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has shown in a new study that ants returning from habitats ...
A recent study from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) reveals that, despite their outsized ecological impact ...
A single queen in the tropics; large colonies in deserts; workers with uniform morphology in temperate regions; ant social structures vary according to environmental conditions. This is shown, for the ...
Native ants in the forests around the recent Eaton fire had survived the heat, flames and smoke, an evolutionary survival ...
Researchers have observed sick adult ants leaving their colony to avoid sickening others. Now, they've discovered that terminally ill young ants or pupae, unable to move in their silken cocoons, have ...
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