The Large Blue butterfly called Maulinea Arion, lives in parts of Europe and Asia and has a life cycle that might be instructive for modern day Americans. It begins its life when the mother lays the ...

Japanese proverb of the day highlights the meaning of the saying, "An ant's nest could bring down a hill." The proverb ...

What lessons can businesses and startups learn from colonies of floating ants that are creating islands to survive flooding? originally appeared on Quora - the knowledge sharing network where ...

A recent study on the International Space Station brings to mind Aesop's fable of the Ant and the Grasshopper, and it is pretty amazing what we can learn from these industrious insects. The activities ...

The new leafcutter ant colony now making its debut at Montreal’s Insectarium showcases the ants’ incredibly complex society — a maze of 20,000 to 30,000 little doers with various predetermined fates ...

From the African tropics to the South Pacific islands, weaver ants build remarkable multilevel homes by sculpting living leaves into nests. But how these tiny insects manage to pull leaves far bigger ...

The first proverb: "Go the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest" ...