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

Imagine a world beneath your feet, teeming with tiny farmers and herders, where societies thrive on agriculture and animal ...

The ant exhibit colony’s constant farming provides ample bacteria and fungal samples for closer research, Currie Lab researcher Soleil Young said. Leafcutter ants rely on beneficial bacteria to ...

The nest is a new home for a million-strong colony of leafcutter ants from Trinidad. For a month, entomologist Dr George McGavin and leafcutter expert Prof Adam Hart capture every aspect of the ...

the ants are very busy. Everyone has a job to do. If they don't do their job, then other things in the colony don't work properly. NARRATOR:'In a leafcutter colony there is a queen ant ...

Currie plowed through the dirt with his hands, uprooting colonies containing millions of ants that find shelter within the 3,000 rooms connected by intertwining tunnels underneath the tropical terrain ...

You say, ‘OMG.’ It was an OMG moment.” An entomologist first identified these leafcutter ants at Organ Pipe in 1949, and park staff found two colonies in the 1970s. Mintzer made his first visit to the ...

"There is unbelievable variation in the way they can make a living," says Ross. Slave-maker ants raid other colonies and take their workers as prisoners. Leaf-cutter ants chew leaves into mulch, which ...

Ants are common insects, but they have some unique capabilities—including their legendary communication skills that allow their colonies to function as superorganisms. Invasive ant species are ...

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 leafcutter ants. ADAM:'This is the first ...