Ant crickets are small insects that spend their entire lives inside ant colonies, one of the most hostile environments for outsiders. These crickets survive by moving carefully among the ants and ...

A trail of leaf-cutter ants marches along the ground, each transporting leaf fragments much larger than themselves. The leaves are not consumed directly. Rather, they are taken below ground to ...

The rainforests of northern Australia are home to extraordinary ant colonies. Instead of dwelling in underground burrows, these ants inhabit canopies of trees, dozens of meters above the ground, ...