Or weaver ants, because they make their soccer-ball-size ... Workers begin to array themselves like live staples along the seam between the leaves, legs holding on to one edge, jaws gripping ...

and weaver ants, which live in ball-shaped nests within tropical tree canopies across Asia, Africa, and Australia. Her team looked at how the microbes influenced apple brown rot and apple scab in two ...

We wanted to film hundreds of Australian weaver ants cooperating to build a nest from leaves. To secure the leaves these ants do something seen nowhere else in nature - they use their own grubs as ...

pathogen-combating ants are typically already present—such as weaver ants in mango orchards. If the species already dwell there, this could increase their numbers and efficiency. The technique ...