Great numbers of ants busied themselves carrying off hunks of cheese and burger, sometimes 40 or 50 ants on a chunk. But for a soft and liquid commodity like jelly, the harvest is much less efficient.

Most organisms forage, hunt, or use photosynthesis to get food, but around 50 million years ago — long before humans were around — ants began cultivating and growing their own food.

Scientists studied the obstacle-clearing behavior of longhorn crazy ants, where a subset of workers temporarily specializes in removing tiny objects blocking the path between the nest and large food ...

First Ants at the Picnic isn't just about growing vegetables, at its core, it's teaching people how to eat, how to plant and more. There will be those who are unable to start their own gardens, so ...

The amount of food that foragers carry perfectly matches the colony’s total hunger. How do ants know this? Individually, they aren’t smart enough. Scientists have puzzled over this question ...

The American Museum of Natural History is unveiling an enormous new exhibit of leafcutter ants. Making it happen was no picnic. A leafcutter ant carrying a flower petal inside a new exhibit in the ...

Have you ever seen a trail of ants carrying green leaves back to their colony? They’re not collecting food for themselves, but for cultivating their Yes, Ants Actually Farm Their Food ...

Among the tens of thousands of ant species, incredible "intelligent" behaviors like crop culture, animal husbandry, surgery, "piracy," social distancing, and complex architecture have evolved.