A study conducted by researchers from São Paulo State University (UNESP), in Brazil, and collaborators shows that lemon ...

Leafcutter ants appear to remember past infections and respond more aggressively to familiar threats, according to a new study.

Characteristics of social immune memory were observed in colonies of Atta sexdens exposed to four different pathogenic fungi. The insects increased their cleaning behavior one week and one month after ...

In the late ‘90s, Cameron Currie, now a professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin, traversed through the Panamanian rainforest to observe the world’s most ancient agriculturalists: leaf ...

Leafcutter ants live only in South America, Mexico, Central America, and a few select areas of the Southern United States, ...

Researchers at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom have found that leaf-cutter ants have a simple system to build up healthful microbes on their exoskeletons—a system the researchers ...

Ants are common insects, but they have some unique capabilities—including their legendary communication skills that allow their colonies to function as superorganisms. Invasive ant species are ...

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 ...

Ph.D. student Juju Dessert will explore the fascinating world of leafcutter ants. These ants aren’t eating the leaves they carry—they use plant matter to cultivate a special fungus in their ...

Yes, they're ants! NARRATOR:'There are lots of different types of ant, NARRATOR:'and they live all over the world. These ones are from Trinidad, NARRATOR:'and they're called leafcutter ants.

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 ...