A man camping in the Amazon rainforest shared the moment he was woken up by leaf cutter ants ripping apart his tent. Conservationist Paul Rosolie was resting in the world's largest rainforest when the ...

Hitching a ride: A leaf-cutter ant carries a leaf, while smaller ants called minums hitch a ride. These minums act as a defence to make sure parasitic wasps don t lay eggs on the workers carrying the ...

'It was hell. I've never seen anything like it. That night was insanity. It was just a nightmare.' Paul Rosolie is telling MailOnline Travel about the night in the Peruvian Amazon that leaf-cutter ...

Somewhere in the middle of the Amazon rain forest in South America is a strange kind of frog (Lithodytes lineatus) that appears to be completely impervious to aggressive leaf-cutter ants, and until ...

In the late ‘90s, Cameron Currie, now a professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin, traversed through the Panamanian rainforest to observe the world’s most ancient agriculturalists: leaf ...

Leaf-cutter ant nests are biogeochemical hot spots where ants live and import vegetation to grow fungus. Metabolic activity and (in wet tropical forests) soil gas flux to the nest may result in high ...

When someone tells you that their camera setup was destroyed by bugs, what comes to mind? A failed firmware update, maybe? How about a corrupt memory card or a faulty sensor? While those all may seem ...