10 Mind-Blowing Facts About Ants Ants might be small, but there’s a lot more to these tiny creatures than meets the eye. Here are 10 facts about ants that will absolutely blow your mind!

10 Mind-Blowing Facts About Ants Ants might be small, but there’s a lot more to these tiny creatures than meets the eye. Here are 10 facts about ants that will absolutely blow your mind!

Look At This Huge Floating Raft Made Out of Ants How many thousands of ants do you think are in this floating ant raft? I mean, the size of it is just ridiculous and there’s more ants clumped up in balls on top of the raft too. Ants have been known to link their legs and mouths with each other to Read more ... create these sort of ant rafts during flooding but ...

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Butterfly Thieves Steal From 'Badass' Ants-A First Even bullet ants—the “most badass ants of the jungle” due to their pugnacious nature and painful sting—got swindled.

Video: Ants Act Like Both Liquids and Solids Kind of like the T-1000 from "Terminator 2."

Ants Might Be Cheap, Effective Alternatives To Chemical Pesticides While some ants are considered pests themselves, weaver ants from the genus Oecophylla are good pest controllers that actually help improve crop yields for farmers. According to a new review published in the Journal of Applied Ecology this week, thes Read more ... e ants are the best documented example of biologic…

Ants Self-Medicate To Ward Off Fungal Infections Healthy ants typically avoid harmful substances called reactive oxygen species, such as peroxides. But when they’re infected by a fungus, selectively ingesting those molecules will actually help them survive. The findings, published in Evolution th Read more ... is week, show that ants know how to fight diseases b…

Crushed Ants Smell Like Blue Cheese and Piña Coladas Gone Bad The odorous house ant, Tapinoma sessile, is one of the most common ants in the US, and people who’ve actually sniffed their fingers after crushing them typically liken the smell to rotten coconuts, cleaning solution, rancid butter, or blue cheese. Read more ... As it turns out, at least two of the food items have…

Ants Designate Space in Their Nests for Tiny Toilets What is this, a toilet for ants? Yes, Derek, it is! Researchers working with black garden ants reveal that these hard workers form well-defined fecal patches inside of their nest -- a behavior that’s never been documented in ants before. The findin Read more ... gs were published in PLOS ONE this week.