This is a shame, because biodiversity isn’t found only in the Amazon; there is a lot of biodiversity in and around Toronto, too. Many people I talk to are surprised to find out that there are even ant ...

A species of Amazonian tree ant builds elaborate traps to snare its prey, which is then stretched like a victim on a medieval rack before being hacked to pieces.

Though you might not think of ants as formidable bodyguards, some do an impressive job protecting plants from enemies. Now, scientists at the University of Toronto have determined what makes some ...

The ants usually use this chemical as a pheromone marker to determine who’s friendly and who’s a foe. As a result, all the ants use this chemical to tell each other apart from another species. This ...

The police told Panorama that they had recently intercepted a package of 5,000 giant Amazonian ants coated in opium latex and destined for Germany. Opium latex is a compound rich in alkaloids ...

Ant-plant interactions in the canopy of a lowland Amazonian rainforest of the upper Orinoco, Venezuela, were studied using a modified commercial crane on rails (Surumoni project). Our observations ...