Assistant Professor of Mathematics Bhargav Karamched has created the first model explaining how foraging ants form pheromone trails to multiple food sources. It’s a common sight — ants marching in an ...

If you have ever watched ants move, you might have noticed that they almost always walk in a neat line, one behind the other. While it may look like discipline or training, scientists say this pattern ...

It grows quickly and depends on adult worker ants to feed it. These workers decide how much and what kind of food the larva ...

We typically think of camouflage in nature in terms of bodily coloration, enabling the species to blend in with the background and evade predators. But previous studies have documented locomotor ...

Ant colonies survive because individuals are willing to die. New research shows that some of the most vulnerable members, immobile pupae sealed in their cocoons, can sense when they are fatally ...