Long-legged and lithe, they so aggressively dominate huge territories in the forest canopies that locals simply call them the tree ants. Or weaver ants, because they make their soccer-ball-size ...

For another experiment in Senegal, they collected weaver ants from mango orchards to investigate the bacterial communities ...

In the forest canopies of equatorial Africa and Asia, weaver ants construct spectacular swaglike nests of leaves stitched together with silken threads extracted from the colony’s larval ranks.

Occasionally, some breeding spaces are rented out to other bird species. Unlike many ant species, Asian weaver ants build ...

It’s like an instant real estate chain reaction, minus the paperwork! When Australian weaver ants build their homes, it’s all hands on deck, even if you don’t have any. These ants employ ...

Bhubaneswar: It is forest fire season, and pangolins bred in Nandankanan zoo here might face food scarcity as its favourite feed, red weaver ants, become scarce, officials said. The ants are also ...