Deep in the heart of tropical forests, an astonishing community thrives, led by some of nature’s most ingenious engineers: leafcutter ants. With astonishing coordination and intelligence ...

Leafcutter ants recognize the pathogen even a month after first contact. In the photo, a lemon leafcutter cleans fungus cultivated by the species Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

A 2014 study published in the Journal of Biomechanics reported that the neck joint of a common American field ant can ...

This episode looks at leaf-cutter ants that grow food, and shake their bodies to communicate through vibrations. Plus, humans ...

Leafcutter ants (such as this worker) bite half-moons from leaves in the forest, then drag the fingernail-size cuttings into their nests, where they're used as fertilizer for their fungi gardens.

Fifty million years before humankind began farming, ancient ants were already in the agriculture business. Over time, leafcutter ants have evolved a complex system of agriculture in their nests ...

This is a symbiotic relationship where the ants help the host digest insects in exchange for living space. Mark Moffett / Minden Pictures A group of leafcutter ants (Atta cephalotes) carries ...

The Microbe Place, housed in the Microbial Sciences Building main lobby, exhibits some of the research within the department of bacteriology — including the leaf cutter ant colony. The ant colony ...

For Atta mexicana, a tropical leafcutter ant that lives here at the northernmost limit of its range, the rain means it’s almost time to mate. Few people ever see a mating swarm, which happens before ...

These glass boxes and tubes have been built to replicate the underground tunnels and chambers of an ant colony in the wild, and they're full of busy leafcutter ants. ADAM:'This is the first time ...