Tag Archives: Competition

Cross-dressing ants

Posted on January 13, 2014 by antyscience

Ant males are normally a very overlooked type of ant. They generally don’t look much like an ant at all (see for example Alex Wild’s ant male pictures), don’t go outside except for mating, and die immediately after mating, making … Continue reading →

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Science: How to tease your fellow ants even more

Posted on June 17, 2013 by antyscience

Remember my previous post about ants throwing rocks in the entrance of other nests? Turns out that there is another ant that takes this interference behaviour to a whole new level. In the Lower Sonoran desert, two ant species like … Continue reading →

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Science: How to tease your fellow ants

Posted on June 3, 2013 by antyscience

What happens when your species of ants likes to eat exactly the same things, in the same area as another species of ants? Well…you basically have two options: 1) be better than your opponent at finding/exploiting this food 2) mess … Continue reading →

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