Ants send messages to colony members through odor compounds that contain alkenes, chemicals that help nestmates recognize one ...

A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has shown in a new study that ants returning from habitats ...

A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has shown in a new study that ants returning from habitats affected by air pollution are attacked when they re-enter the colony. The ...

A single queen in the tropics; large colonies in deserts; workers with uniform morphology in temperate regions; ant social structures vary according to environmental conditions. This is shown, for the ...

Native ants in the forests around the recent Eaton fire had survived the heat, flames and smoke, an evolutionary survival ...

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