Using mathematical modeling and field data, researchers have found the basic rules that allow ants to build efficient and low cost transport networks without discarding robustness. Using mathematical ...

The Large Blue butterfly called Maulinea Arion, lives in parts of Europe and Asia and has a life cycle that might be instructive for modern day Americans. It begins its life when the mother lays the ...

A new type of collective behaviour in ants has been revealed by an international team of scientists, headed by biologist Professor Iain Couzin, co-director of the Cluster of Excellence "Centre for the ...

Ants are doubly annoying because the minute I started checking, they taught me how dreadfully ignorant I am. Definitely on the subject of ants. Unless you too are in the habit of picking one up to ...