Trap-jaw ants can slam their jaws together with extraordinary speed, with the tips of their mandibles racing at up to roughly 120 miles per hour. How they could perform such attacks, repeatedly, ...

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Odontomachus brunneus (IMAGE) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau Caption The leaf-litter ant Odontomachus brunneus is native to the Southeast U.S. It is most active at night. When ...

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Surprisingly gently. That’s how Odontomachus ants use their trap jaws to move soft, wriggly larvae around the nest. When ants hunt, though, those same jaws can smack shut at speeds exceeding 200 ...

This article was originally published on Nov. 16, 2018. For 60 years, scientists observing Formica archboldi, a species of ant native to Florida, have documented something…odd. The ants’ underground ...

Odontomachus rixosus, a trap-jaw ant native to Borneo and Malaysia, can jump using both its jaws and its legs. Odontomachus rixosus, a trap-jaw ant native to Borneo and Malaysia, can jump using both ...

Trap-jaw ants, with their spring-loaded jaws and powerful stings, are among the fiercest insect predators, but they begin their lives as spiny, hairy, fleshy blobs hanging from the ceiling and walls ...

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A team of Swiss researchers with bugs on the brain has created an army of simple robotic "ants" capable of some impressive feats. The takeaway from these 10 gram bots, which are inexpensive to make ...

For more than 50 years, two exotic ant species, Linepithema humile (Mayr) and Pheidole megacephala (F.), have been battling for ecological supremacy in Bermuda. Here we summarize known ant records ...