Ants vs Humans: Our insect friends are better team players
A puzzling new study finds that ants possess a higher collective intelligence than humans.
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Ant Venom Holds Clues for Pain Pathways in Mammals
Scientists have characterized a component of bull ant venom that causes hypersensitivity to touch and heat in mammals
Solace and Warnings From Our Planet’s Most Successful Non-Human Farmers
by Rebecca Silbermanfigures by Aparna Nathan
It only took a few weeks of the coronavirus pandemic to send the American farm industry reeling. The supply chains that connect soy fields and chicken coops and greenhouses with American tables were not…
Who knew? Insecticides negatively impact ant colonies, too!
Ant colonies exposed to certain insecticides become smaller and weaker after a year. Are they another casualty in the war against crop-damaging pests.?
Ants Store Long-term and Short-term Memories on Separate Sides of the Brain
Researchers from the University of Sussex recently found that wood ants seem to store long-term and short-term memories in different brain hemispheres. They found this by studying ants as they were conditioned to associate a visual input with food.
Ants self-medicate: are even cooler than Ant-Man made them look
Formica fusca, the ant specie used in the study, feedingBy Sedeer El-Showk [CC BY-SA 2.5], via Wikimedia Commons 2015 has been a good year for ants: Ant-Man was added to the roster of Marvel superheroes and now a recent paper has shown ants participating…