The engineering and defensive skills of red wood ants help the endangered species transcend its small stature in the natural world. Droves of ants spray formic acid produced by a venom gland at the ...

Whole-genome assembly of a single wood ant individual and reconstruction of the speciation history between Formica aquilonia & F. polyctena The first preprint introduces the assembly and annotation of ...

ANTS of the Formica rufa group often overlook suitable prey if it does not move1 and often attack insects not normally preyed upon if they perceive movement2. The following experiment was designed to ...