Ant colonies act like fortresses, protecting the bounty within from marauding invaders. Some animals have evolved blunt tools such as large claws to tear into the nests, but others have evolved far ...

I put the small brown ant I had mounted (but never identified) under a microscope and peered down at it. Two huge, headlight-like eyes stared back at me. That couldn’t be right; ants don’t have eyes ...

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Researchers use miniature robots to replicate the behavior of a colony of Argentine ants on the move, navigating from their nest entrance to a food source Capital Wheel Light Show Jetpack Demo at the ...

Myrmecomorphy is a phenomenon in which some animals mimic ants morphologically and behaviorally. It is an example of the broader biological phenomenon of mimicry, which is widely distributed in nature ...

Sometimes, the best way to handle an enemy is not to fight, but to fake. So it is with the hundreds of species — beetles, spiders, caterpillars and more — that mimic the forms or behaviors of ants, or ...

To avoid being eaten, some jumping spiders pretend to be ants, a new study has found. Protective mimicry is a remarkable example of adaptive evolution: Moths can be colored like butterflies and ...

Robots built to mimic ants suggest that real ants waste little, if any, mental energy deciding which way to go when they reach an uneven fork in the road, according to a new study. Instead, the ants ...

When nature artist Franz Anthony found a caterpillar on a leaf rearing both its ends up at him, he thought it kind of looked two weaver ants. The color, the seemingly segmented body, the bulbs and ...

Imposters abound in the animal kingdom. Peruse any textbook description of mimicry—in which one species evolves to resemble another—and you will encounter various classic examples, such as the king ...

It pays to tread lightly. Termites have evolved super-soft footsteps and sharp hearing to evade their noisy enemies. Ants are major predators of termites, but they often fail to notice that hungry ...