“These ants are amazing organisms. They cut leaves and they use that leaf material to grow a fungus for food,” explained Cameron Currie, lead researcher and a biochemistry and biomedical ...

These ants grow a fungus, which feeds the entire colony, using leaves that the ants harvest from the surrounding rainforest. This image relates to an article that appeared in the Nov. 20 issue of ...

The ants and the bacteria and fungi on their legs secrete antibiotic substances that prevented apple rot fungus from growing on the part of the agar plate that the ants had access to. On the left ...

Long before humans planted crops like wheat or rice, ants were already farming. These tiny animals have been cultivating ...

Surprising the scientific community, graduate student Cameron Currie discovered a mold that threatens to kill the fungi, and the antibiotic which the ants produce in order to control it.

HBO's post-apocalyptic series, "The Last of Us," imagines a world where the parasitic Cordyceps fungus, which typically infects ants and insects, has evolved in such a way that it can control the ...

Those ants don’t eat the leaves — instead they bring them back to their nests to feed a garden of fungi, which produce food for the ants. Researchers have now used DNA analysis to uncover just ...