As individuals, driver ants are small and relatively insignificant creatures. But as a colony, they transform into a huge and ...

A Concordia biology professor is calling on ant experts to develop a set of common principles that influence the way the insects respond when their habitat undergoes severe disruption. Lessard writes ...

Habitat alteration can have far-reaching consequences for natural communities and can alter existing species interactions in profound ways. Working in a tropical dry forest ecosystem in the Guanacaste ...

Ant farms are a reminder of an oppressive, patriarchal society. In these enlightened times, we are called to remember that ants are living things, worthy by virtue of their very existance to burrow ...

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Concordia University biology professor Jean-Philippe Lessard reviews the ant traits system developed by Alan Andersen and calls for the creation of a global framework to help categorize the world's ...