For centuries we have believed that humans were unique in our ability to farm and cultivate our own food. However, it turns ...

When a new queen establishes a colony, she carries a piece of her mother’s fungal garden to start the next farm. Currently, ...

Leafcutter ants live only in South America, Mexico, Central America, and a few select areas of the Southern United States, including Texas. There are at least 55 distinct species of leaf cutter ...

but some also have more ‘modern’ strategies and are in fact the world’s oldest farmers, growing crops and keeping livestock. Leaf and grass cutter ants, as their names suggest, use leaf and ...