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 ...

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When bumble bees fight invasive Argentine ants for food, bees may win an individual skirmish but end up with less to feed the ...

Several species of Piper (Piperaceae) live in symbiosis with Pheidole bicornis (Formicidae-Myrmicinae) on the southern Pacific slope of Costa Rica. These plants produce small single-celled food bodies ...

Feeding ants, a practice rooted in Hindu beliefs, is considered a powerful remedy to alter one's fate and karmic challenges.

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 ...