Ant efficiency

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Dear HIW, Do ants give themselves roles to keep them carrying food in organise

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How It Works Magazine

07 November, 2024

Landscape

Secret workforce beneath the forest

Structured, social and remarkably sophisticated, a bustling woodland ant community is home to engineers, farmers, nurses and warriors

The Week Junior: Science + Nature

Girl power!

Daisy Dobrijevic discovers the queen bees and alpha females of the animal kingdom.

BBC Wildlife Magazine

Come fly with me

FOSSIL EVIDENCE TELLS US THAT insects have put wings to good use in their domination of the planet for the past 325 million years. However, some of these insects have given up their various motile fla

The Week UK

Health & science

What the scientists are saying… The oldest ...

BBC Wildlife Magazine

The bullet ant

YOU’LL KNOW ALL ABOUT IT IF you get stung by a bullet ant (Paraponera clavata), a species named after the fact that the pain from its venom feels as if it has been inflicted by a gunshot. Some insect