How plants and animals exploit ant behavior for their own benefit

by C. Hayes

Ants impose heavy selection pressures on both plants and animals in their local community. Formicidae is an abundant and diverse arthropod family that has expanded to exploit nearly every lifestyle available to creatures o...read more

by Jason Hernandez

When I was in my last year of undergraduate education, my professor, Jack Longino, was a myrmecologist - an ant scientist. In Costa Rica, he showed us various "ant plants," that is, plants which have a symbiotic relations...read more