Army ants, with their large mandibles and painful ... For example, ants have a variety of biological defenses. Fire ants bite and sting with a venom called solenopsin. They can also survive ...

In this figure set, students use a study by Wrege et al. (2005) to examine the relationship between the army ant Eciton burchellii and birds that follow foraging swarms. Army ant swarms are one of the ...

Tarantulas are hairy so that the army ants cleaning their homes don't eat them alive, a new study suggests. The study, ...