Tarantulas are hairy so that the army ants cleaning their homes don't eat them alive, a new study suggests. The study, published Aug. 6 in the Journal of Natural History, proposes several new ideas ...

Powell, Scott. 2011. "How much do army ants eat? On the prey intake of a neotropical top-predator." Insectes Sociaux, 58, (3) 317–324. https://doi.org/10.1007 ...

There’s safety, even power, in numbers. One creature’s confrontation with the world seems insurmountable, almost impossible, but an army of those little creatures can move mountains. And no creature ...

Like human armies, army ants spell trouble for anything that finds itself in their path. The insects make a habit of killing organisms, often much larger than themselves, breaking them into pieces and ...

Purpose: To practice interpreting graphical presentation of experimental results; to determine the type of ecological relationship between army ants and ant-following birds. The "step one-step two" ...

An army ant from the Amazon rain forest in Brazil. Photo by Sean Brady. ITHACA, N.Y. -- Army ants, nature's ultimate coalition task force, strike their prey en masse in a blind, voracious column and ...

Tarantulas' hairy bodies protect against the scavenging, spider-eating army ants that clean their nests, scientists say. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...