Leafcutter ants appear to remember past infections and respond more aggressively to familiar threats, according to a new ...

A study conducted by researchers from São Paulo State University (UNESP), in Brazil, and collaborators shows that lemon ...

Characteristics of social immune memory were observed in colonies of Atta sexdens exposed to four different pathogenic fungi.

There are at least 55 distinct species of leaf cutter ants, divided into three genera: Acromyrmex, Amoimyrmux, and Atta.

For Atta mexicana, a tropical leafcutter ant that lives here at the northernmost limit of its range, the rain means it’s almost time to mate. Few people ever see a mating swarm, which happens before ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/3495996 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/3495996 Leaf-cutting ants (Acromyrmex sp. and Atta sp.) in Costa Rica show many intraand ...