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

Leafcutter ants build massive nests that can reach 20 feet deep ... different plant materials and will signal to the media ants to find other types of plants if necessary. The fungi, in turn, provide ...

Ants were farming more than 60 million years before humans first planted crops, according to new research. Insect agriculture began 66 million years ago in the aftermath of the devastating asteroid ...

The Amazon rainforest is home to some of the most unusual and, in some cases, dangerous on earth that show little care or ...

Regardless, it’s time to act fast. “Once a worker finds food, it takes it back to the nest to recruit the other ants,” says Eric Benson, PhD. “It will lay down a pheromone trail that the other ants ...

It's a common sight -- ants marching in an orderly line over and around obstacles from their nest to a food source, guided by scent trails left by scouts marking the find. But what happens when ...

They construct underground chambers where they "farm" and harvest their staple food, fungus. The leaf cutter ants ripped through Paul's tent (Getty Images/iStockphoto) Since being shared onto the ...

It's a common sight—ants marching in an orderly line over and around obstacles from their nest to a food source, guided by scent trails left by scouts marking the find. But what happens when ...

Foraging for resources is an essential process for the daily life of an ant colony, and ants will self-organize using chemical pheromones. Once an ant detects a food source, it secretes a chemical ...