Long-legged and lithe, they so aggressively dominate huge territories in the forest canopies that locals simply call them the tree ants. Or weaver ants, because they make their soccer-ball-size ...

This body of work should be both original and outstanding. When a weaver ant colony went hunting for small insects on a dry riverbed, this beetle began to pick them off. In an act of defence, one of ...

In Odisha's Mayurbhanj district, red weaver ants are used to make a chutney or a watery semi-solid paste known as "Kai Chutney." This chutney is renowned in the region for its medicinal and ...

spiny ant and weaver ant. The researchers identified the volatile compounds present in samples from each species, using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, and matched them to odors sensed using an ...