In the deserts of southeastern Arizona, several cleaner ants tend to a harvester ant by licking tiny particles off the larger ant's body. In the deserts of southeastern Arizona, harvester ants ...

Mark Moffett, a research associate at the National Museum of Natural History, specializes in capturing the often-overlooked behaviors of insects Jack Tamisiea To most people, ants are little more than ...

Some coral reef ecosystems famously have “cleaning stations,” where fish line up to be cleaned by other species of fish and shrimp. Entomologist Mark Moffet recently published observations of what ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Mutualism is a type of symbiotic relationship in which both parties gain some form of benefit from their interactions. Many of them involve a type of cleaning service. A typical example is when one ...

Researchers have uncovered an unusual survival strategy in Iberian harvester ants that turns basic biology on its head: The queens can produce eggs that develop into two different ant species. A team ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the biblical text Book of Proverbs, King Solomon describes the harvester ant as a ...

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Kenyan ant expert Dino Martins gushes over the red and black insects that have become the center of an international smuggling trade. Martins has been visiting the network of nests of these Giant ...