Weaver ants are some of the most aggressive ants I've ever worked with, but I felt our giant rainforest double vivarium was ready to host such an arboreal ant species. I was curious to see how the ...

Team tactics Weaver ant colonies use shared memory to sniff out rivals, similar to sports fans recognising each other by their team colours. And like small town rivalries, they're more aggressive to ...

For some would-be ant queens, the easiest way to take over a colony is to dupe its worker ants into committing regicide. The scientist E.O. Wilson once wrote that ants are the most warlike of all ...