Ants
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Calling All Artists, the Weaver Ant has Tips!
Cartoons and illustrations on wildlife, environment and conservation
Green Humour
Weaver Ants: Facts, Defence Strategies, Habitat
All you need to know about these social insects
Infographic
Amazing Ants | Superheroes of the Insect World
Ants are capable of performing some remarkable feats. We are ench-ant-ed. Are you?
Multimedia
A Bug’s Life: The Ant Question Hour
These tiny creatures rescue their injured friends and weather storms. A peek into some of the mysteries and intriguing behaviours of the ant world
Wild Vault
New Underground Ant Discovered from Goa
Measuring just 2.5 mm in length, yellow in colour and completely blind, Vaibhav’s Protanilla was first found in Netravali Wildlife Sanctuary
News
Nest of Deception: When Spiders Mimic Weaver Ants
Numerous species of spiders trick weaver ants by mimicking their appearance and behaviour. They steal their identity and larvae, and sometimes even kill and eat them up
Species
Canopy Colonisers: Battles of the Weaver Ant Armies
Weaver ants display great aggression towards nearly any visitors to their territory, but will actively look after farms of sap-sucking insects to harvest honeydew to meet their energy needs
Species
Weaver Ants: Leafy Kingdoms and New Empires
A single queen ant gives rise to a new colony of ants whose workers weave leaves to make nests spanning multiple trees, to house hundreds of thousands of colony-mates
Species