A harvester ant typically approaches a cone ant nest and stands upright with her mandibles open (all worker ants are female).

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In the Arizona desert, scientists have uncovered a bizarre and almost unbelievable partnership between ants: tiny cone ants ...

After witnessing the interactions in an Arizona desert, a Smithsonian researcher suggests that the little ants picked off ...

Mark Moffett, a research associate at the National Museum of Natural History, specializes in capturing the often-overlooked ...

Scientists discover desert ants forming a rare cleaning partnership, challenging what we know about insect behavior and ...

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In the deserts of southeastern Arizona, harvester ants congregate with serrated jaws agape outside the nests of much smaller cone ants. However, the nests’ inhabitants are not threatened. Instead, ...