Ants are famous for their regimented and complex social behaviors. In the tropics, they are also famous for forming mutualisms with plants. Certain species of trees have conspicuous hollow swellings ...

THE fact has long been known that some species of ants occur in constant association with certain kinds of trees. Thus members of the dolichoderid genus Azteca are often found inhabiting the interior ...

A caterpillar of the family Lycinadae eats the parasitic bulb Scientists have found a bizarre food triangle between three different organisms lurking deep in the Peruvian Amazon. The cast of ...

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, ...