The rainforests of northern Australia are home to extraordinary ant colonies. Instead of dwelling in underground burrows, these ants inhabit canopies of trees, dozens of meters above the ground, ...

A chain of weaver ants can easily outpull just about any other creature, pound for pound, making them one of the most formidable teams in the animal kingdom. Weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina), which ...

An Israeli lab is pioneering research into a little-studied species of ant that has extraordinary building abilities and is found in the tropics, from India to northern Australia. Weaver ants work in ...

(vi BBC Earth) Unlike most ants, weaver ants live above ground building nests out of leaves. But the way they hold their structures together may shock you.

Weaver ants have solved a problem that has plagued human teams for centuries: individuals contribute less to tasks when more people join in. New research published in Current Biology on 12 August ...