The piano-mover puzzle involves trying to transport an oddly shaped load across a constricted environment with various ...

The ant scurries along on six nimble legs. It catches up to its peers, a line of antennaed bugs roaming the winding surface of a tree, perpetually hunting for food. While doing so, each ...

Crickets are parasites—for some ant colonies. The species of ant crickets from the Myrmecophilus genus can infiltrate ant ...

There are only two animals capable of transporting an object so large that it can only be moved by cooperating: humans and ...

with the humans doing it for the challenge and the ants because they had been tricked into thinking they were moving a piece of food towards their nest. The researchers tested how humans and the ...

Dealing with ants in your cat’s food can be both a nuisance around the house and a serious hygiene issue. Not only can these ...

Ant guests will exploit the food resources in the ant colony ... In these situations, the crickets didn’t move uniformly around the colony. Instead, they remained close to certain locations ...

They are divided into roles: the egg-laying queen ant, the male ants that only mate, and the worker ants that gather food and care for ... Grouping together to move blocks between two small ...