Biologist and videographer Mark Moffett's footage of ants gets up close and personal with the leaf-cutter species of the insect Explore Subscribe Newsletters Content Licensing Our Partners Terms ...

Ants pose health risks with their bites and stings too ... With the exception of leaf-cutter ants, they also rarely cause any ...

Researchers at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom have found that leaf-cutter ants have a simple system to build up healthful microbes on their exoskeletons—a system the researchers ...

When Bence first tried to photograph leaf-cutter ants in action, he thought it was going to be easy ... behaviour of chiggers (skin-digesting mite larvae), which covered him in bites. Bence is a ...

Leaf and grass cutter ants, as their names suggest, use leaf and grass cuttings to cultivate a unique fungus within their nest. Each piece is chewed up and mixed with the fungus; the fungus is ...