Feeding ants, a practice rooted in Hindu beliefs, is considered a powerful remedy to alter one's fate and karmic challenges. This act is believed to pacify the ill effects of Saturn, Rahu, Ketu, and ...

In an ant colony, few tasks are as important as gathering food. But the desert heat can pose a challenge for an ant on foraging duty. Recent findings show how dopamine may influence the behavior of ...

Some tropical pepper plants also have mutualistic associations with still-other kinds of ants, housing the ants in hollow stems and feeding them on special “pearl bodies” full of nutrients. The ants ...

The threat of death is no obstacle for some hungry fire ants. To escape drowning while feeding on sugary water, black imported fire ants built syphons out of sand that moved the water to a safer spot.

In an ant colony, few tasks are as important as gathering food. But the desert heat can pose a challenge for an ant on foraging duty. Recent findings, publishing in the journal iScience on September ...