Recently we reported on the issue of red imported fire ants in Brisbane – a pernicious pest, first detected in Queensland in 2001, that affects agricultural crops, native species and human health. Although…
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Since first being detected in Brisbane, Queensland, in 2001, red imported fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) have shown themselves to be an extremely damaging invasive pest, affecting agricultural crops, native…
Australian bull ants that travel at night take longer to return to the nest, a study from the Australian National University…
University of Cambridge, in conjunction with the University of Brunei Darussalam, have discovered the mutually exclusive…
When disaster strikes, search and rescue robots could save lives by finding and retrieving people buried under rubble. But designing robots that can descend rapidly through unstable and uneven rubble has…
You’d be hard pressed to find many people who hold ants in high regard. That might be due to their destructive behaviour towards lawns, their ability to infest your house in no time at all, or a willingness…
A study that mapped the chemical receptors of two different ant species has revealed a large and varied system of chemical…
Leafcutter ants are known for cultivating complex gardens of fungi and bacteria. While scientists have known for over a century…
Weaver ants share a collective memory of the odours of rival ants, researchers from the University of Melbourne and elsewhere…
We humans have long looked to ants as models for our own societies, from Jean de La Fontaine’s tale of the grasshopper and the ant to modern uses of ant algorithms to solve computational and logistics…
A new hierarchy has been discovered among colonies of ants. It was previously assumed that all ants in a colony were of equivalent…
Monogamy and close genetic relationships have been found to work together to enhance the social structure of insects such…
Can an ant’s strategy for moving around be useful for building robots with autonomous navigation? Working with experts in the field of artificial intelligence, we have just begun to explore this possibility…
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