Argentine ants have been found on six continents, from South America to Japan. Researchers are studying their impact.

Did ants initially develop their gall-collecting behavior independently, only for wasps to exploit it later? Or might gall manipulation by wasps predate the evolution of seed dispersal by plants ...

Our main study object is the mound-building ant Formica exsecta (pictured). We have extensive data on colony demographics, colony genetic structure, and dispersal behavior across 25 years. The full ...

Aardvarks are known to have powerful a sense of smell to sniff out ants and termites ... attention to the value of aardvarks for the seed dispersal of C. humifructus, which has greatly declined ...