The engineering and defensive skills of red wood ants help the endangered species transcend its small stature in the natural world.

However, some species have diets that are more unusual. Army ants, with their large mandibles and painful stings, may prey on reptiles, birds, or even small mammals. Ant colonies are so tightly ...

Ant throwdowns involve the use of their sharp mandibles, and can even leave a bad taste in their mouths, literally. Anger ants enough, and they spray formic acid at one another. While often deadly ...

This is when most of them breed and feed ... for an ant. Some species can reach a length of 4 centimeters. They are easily recognizable with their large eyes, long mandibles (jaws) and aggressive ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. When the scientists measured the forces acting on the ant’s mandible and on the ligament that functions as a spring, they found a 50-50 ...

They use the leave to grow fungus that feed the colony and they look ... size and has a special job to do. The soldier ants are big with huge mandibles that are used for defending the nest and ...