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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Why would an ant walk in an endless circle until it dies of starvation and exhaustion? Known as an ant death spiral, or circular milling, this deadly phenomenon can cause hundreds of ants to follow ...

Isabella Muratore at the New Jersey Institute of Technology says studying army ants comes with certain occupational hazards. ISABELLA MURATORE: They're very aggressive. They have venom, so they will ...

Cooperative behavior in organisms often permits groups to achieve collective tasks that are unattainable to individuals. Such is the case of fire ant workers that aggregate together to create buoyant ...