Have you ever imagined a bustling city beneath your feet, pulsing with life and humming with purpose—yet entirely hidden from ...

Researchers at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom have found that leaf-cutter ants have a simple system to build up healthful microbes on their exoskeletons—a system the researchers ...

The most recently derived form of ant agriculture that the researchers placed on the tree is practiced by the leaf-cutter ants of tropical Central and South America. Instead of scrounging from the ...

Leaf and grass cutter ants, as their names suggest, use leaf and grass cuttings to cultivate a unique fungus within their nest. Each piece is chewed up and mixed with the fungus; the fungus is ...

This food helps fuel complex colonies of leaf-cutter ants that can number in the millions. Dr. Schultz has spent 35 years ...

ADAM:'These glass boxes and tubes have been built to replicate the underground tunnels and chambers of an ant colony in the wild and they're full of busy leaf cutter ants. ADAM:'This is the first ...

Biologist and videographer Mark Moffett's footage of ants gets up close and personal with the leaf-cutter species of the insect National Treasure: Revealing the Stunning 2.33-Carat Winston Red ...

Fifty million years before humankind began farming, ancient ants were already in the agriculture business. Over time, leafcutter ants have evolved a complex system of agriculture in their nests ...

When Bence first tried to photograph leaf-cutter ants in action, he thought it was going to be easy. It wasn't, but, he researched their complex society and spent hours following them in the Costa ...