Twenty years ago, entomologist Mark Moffett was in southeastern Arizona when he noticed insects doing something strange. Red harvester ants parked themselves near the nests of much tinier cone ants, ...

The activity began around sunrise and peaked before 9 am, when the desert heat forced the ants to retreat. Some harvester ants approached within centimetres of a cone ant nest entrance, raised their ...

Worker ants perform important tasks like gathering food, taking care of eggs and larvae and nest building. However, some species of ants cannot produce workers through reproductive means with their ...

Insect expert Mark Moffett visited Portal, Arizona, in June 2006, ready to study bugs at the nearby Southwestern Research Station. Little did he know that he would make a discovery on his first ...

Back in the early 2000’s, a researcher named Mark Moffett took some pictures of ants. Twenty years later, he was looking at them again with fresh eyes and noticed that the large red harvester ants he ...

Researchers have uncovered an unusual survival strategy in Iberian harvester ants that turns basic biology on its head: The queens can produce eggs that develop into two different ant species. A team ...

Some coral reef ecosystems famously have “cleaning stations,” where fish line up to be cleaned by other species of fish and shrimp. Entomologist Mark Moffet recently published observations of what ...