Ants solve complex logistical challenges without leaders by using pheromone trails to communicate food location, quality, and ...

Ants choose new homes carefully, weighing factors like size & light. More differences between options improved choice ...

Like other insects, individual bees survive our harsh winters in diapause, overwintering in different stages of their life cycle: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Those individuals survive safe from the ...

The breath you just took contains about 21 percent oxygen. But if you were in a chamber with no influx of fresh air, the ...

Ants farm aphids. It's weird yet fascinating. And a bit like a miniature horror movie. But it's a nightmare for gardeners.

Abstract: In response to escalating market demands, we extend the distributed assembly flowshop problems (DAFSPs) by incorporating batch delivery, optimizing both total energy consumption (TEC) and ...

Young, infected Lasius neglectus ants will send out an altruistic "kill me" signal to worker ants, a new study finds, as part ...

Mice love to take shelter inside beehives. It’s a perfect spot for a mouse; warm and cozy with plenty of honey to eat. However, bees aren’t too keen on invaders, and they have ways of dealing with ...

Abstract: As the global economy develops and people's awareness of environmental protection increases, the efficient scheduling of production lines in workshops has received more and more attention.

Sick ant pupae of Lasius neglectus can sense when they’ll die from infection and signal for help, triggering their own destruction to protect the colony—a selfless act studied at IST Austria and the ...

Ant species that evolved thinner shells traded individual armor protection for increases in colony size, enabling improved food gathering, task organization and defense, according to researchers from ...