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The study, published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, found that the high accelerations of Dracula ant strikes likely result in high-impact forces necessary for predatory or defensive behaviours.

The parasite controls the behaviour of carpenter ant workers, compelling them to climb vegetation and bite into the underside of leaves or twigs, where they die.

They are fearsome predators armed with long, spiky, widely-agape mandibles and their jaws move so fast that it's hard to register the movement and it's already over by the time you do.

Ants, which are famed for their highly developed work ethic, use the sun and memories of their surroundings to find the way home when they walk backward dragging a heavy load, scientists have found.

New species of 'ant-like' desert bees have been discovered by a team of researchers.

Liquids shared mouth-to-mouth by social insects contain proteins that can influence the development and organisation of their colonies, according to new findings.

As per the study,Ants belonging to a South American group switched from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to subsistence farming of fungi that grew on decomposing, woody plant matter some 55 to 60 million years ago, shortly after the dinosaurs died out, new research has found.  

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The average speed increased in anticipation of a longer movement, suggesting that movement durations were somehow determined in advance.

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Army ants are nomadic species.

The findings could be applied to develop swarm robotics for exploration and rescue operations. 

They suggest that just as organisms may respond to cell damage via pain, ant colonies respond to loss of workers via group awareness.