a European field ant known for building dome-shaped nests in fields and open woodlands, and weaver ants, which live in ball-shaped nests within tropical tree canopies across Asia, Africa, and ...

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 associated with ants, discovering that they also leave microbial ...

pathogen-combating ants are typically already present—such as weaver ants in mango orchards. If the species already dwell there, this could increase their numbers and efficiency. The technique ...

pathogen-combating ants are typically already present—such as weaver ants in mango orchards. If the species already dwell there, this could increase their numbers and efficiency. The technique ...