Plant diseases cost the global economy hundreds of billions of dollars every year, with between 20 to 40 percent of global ...

Long-legged and lithe, they so aggressively dominate huge territories in the forest canopies that locals simply call them the tree ants. Or weaver ants, because they make their soccer-ball-size ...

Two decades ago, the village of Amlasole in West Midnapore, now part of Jhargram district, was synonymous with tragedy.

We wanted to film hundreds of Australian weaver ants cooperating to build a nest from leaves. To secure the leaves these ants do something seen nowhere else in nature - they use their own grubs as ...

This body of work should be both original and outstanding. When a weaver ant colony went hunting for small insects on a dry riverbed, this beetle began to pick them off. In an act of defence, one of ...

pathogen-combating ants are typically already present — such as weaver ants in mango orchards. If the species already dwell there, this could increase their numbers and efficiency. The technique ...