Matthew Hutson on the photographer Catherine Chalmers, whose work on leaf-cutter ants, titled “We Rule,” was recently on display at the Drawing Center, in SoHo.

An artwork from 2014; these ants double as artists and art handlers! “I had to figure out how to change the mind of millions of ants, not just one,” Chalmers said, recalling the experience of ...

Imagine you are an Oecophylla Weaver Ant. Living a tropical life in the trees, your whole community would share in the task of building homes, warehouses, and working facilities for each other.

Ants put massive amounts of work into their homes, one example of the effort being anthills. They can have many different kinds of habitats, such as inside a tree or your house walls. Only some ...