When army ants come to town, you move out, stay perfectly still, or die. They arrive in a part of the forest by the thousands ...

(Much like termites, which cause far more severe damage.) Some species, such as army ants, defy the norm and do not have permanent homes. (Why invasive ants are a bigger threat than previously ...

In this figure set, students use a study by Wrege et al. (2005) to examine the relationship between the army ant Eciton burchellii and birds that follow foraging swarms. Army ant swarms are one of the ...

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 ...

A worker caste of honey-pot ants called repletes swell into tiny balls to store food collected by foragers. Army ants move in columns, eating all other insects and small animals in their path. Ants ...

Neotropical army ants are top predators in terrestrial ecosystems, with swarm raids that often contain hundreds of thousands of individuals cooperating to hunt, kill, and transport their prey.