Fifty million years before humankind began farming, ancient ants were already in the agriculture business. Over time, leafcutter ants have evolved a complex system of agriculture in their nests ...

For Atta mexicana, a tropical leafcutter ant that lives here at the northernmost limit of its ... By the 1970s, Mintzer was an undergraduate biology major and “already one of those confirmed ant ...

At its heart is a massive, full-scale ant nest, specially designed and built to allow cameras to see its inner workings. The nest is a new home for a million-strong colony of leafcutter ants from ...

Ant agriculture offers a glimpse into a system that has survived mass extinctions, climate change, and even infectious ...

Professor Adam Hart is joined by a team of primary school scientists to explore the fascinating underground world of a leafcutter ant colony. The young scientists get hands-on in their lab ...