ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Predatory beetles can detect the unique alarm signal released by ants that are under attack by parasitic flies, and the beetles use those overheard conversations to guide their search ...

As organisms diversified on planet Earth, some branches of the tree of life became exceptionally diverse, others far less so. Still others went extinct. Why evolution favored certain groups over ...

People were not the first farmers. Several groups of ants, and one of termites, were tending fungal plantations for millions of years before Homo sapiens strode the planet. But ants and termites are ...

ANTS are known for their remarkably sophisticated colonies, coordinating their behaviours to transform a pile of dirt into a complex structure in as little as a week – but there are other ...

MANY of us can remember a happy song we sang in Sunday school, which ran: “God sees the little sparrow fall. It meets His tender view.” No one seemed at all sorry for the sparrow or concerned about ...

The engineering and defensive skills of red wood ants help the endangered species transcend its small stature in the natural world. Droves of ants spray formic acid produced by a venom gland at the ...

Ioannis Pisokas has received funding from the University of Edinburgh. Ajay Narendra receives funding from Australian Research Council, Hermon Slade Foundation. Ayse Yilmaz-Heusinger does not work for ...