When army ants come to town, you move out, stay perfectly still, or die. They arrive in a part of the forest by the thousands ...

“Most termites live several meters deep and have no visual perception. However, harvester termites come out at dusk to collect grass, so they have functional eyes that the larvae are able to mimic ...

In the hidden corners of the world, caterpillars and ants have a remarkably specialized and beneficial protection ...

Escamoles, sometimes called ant egg caviar, are a delicacy in Mexico. These ant larvae can cost over $50 per pound. And when they're exported prices can double. But finding escamoles isn't easy.

Some families of caterpillars (larvae of butterflies and moths) have developed a specific kind of interaction with ants. One ...

The Brahminy blind snake is a small, non-poisonous snake from Southeast Asia that reproduces asexually. It mainly feeds on ...

Larvae of other ant species spin individual protective cocoons of silk. Oecophyllalarvae donate their silk to the colony. Straddling the leaf seam, an adult uses its antennae to tap the head of ...

She is the mother of all the ants. That means she lays the eggs, that hatch into the larvae which in turn, become the adult ants. ADAM:'The ants in a colony are not all the same. There are ...

Number of eggs and larvae monitored as a function of patch size (area and total number of plants) to determine optimum patch-size variables. In areas where the density of fire ant mounds demonstrated ...