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Ants herd aphids with tranquilisers in their footsteps
In your garden, there’s a fair chance that a farmer is currently tranquilising her livestock with a chemical cocktail she secretes from her feet. Don’t believe me? Look closer… Humans aren’t the only...
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Ants spread collective immunity through contact
Imagine you get a bad cold, but you decide to put on a brave face and go into work anyway. Instead of jokingly covering their mouths and making jibes about staying away from you, your colleagues act...
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Assassin bugs deceive spiders with coat of many corpses
The animal world is full of charlatans. Some have bodies shaped by natural selection to fade into the background or resemble other harmful species. Yet others, like chameleons and octopuses, have the...
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Evolutionary arms race turns ants into babysitters for Alcon blue butterflies
In the meadows of Europe, colonies of industrious team-workers are being manipulated by a master slacker. The layabout in question is the Alcon blue butterfly (Maculinea alcon) a large and beautiful...
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Loss of big mammals breaks alliance between ants and trees
The natural world is full of alliances forged between different species, cooperating for mutual rewards. The relationship between ants and acacia trees was one of the first of these to be thoroughly...
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