Dracula ant mandibles shift faster than those of the trap-jaw ant, which have clocked speeds of 145 miles per hour, as well as the mantis shrimp, whose 50-mile-an-hour punch can shatter aquarium ...

It’s no secret that ants live a complex life, working together to accomplish incredible feats. A new study just revealed ...

This unique mandible allowed the ants to pin victims against a horn-like appendage on its head. ... The larvae of the Dracula ant then feed on the prey, getting their nutrition.

When food is scarce, the repletes simply regurgitate the stored food and feed the colony. Leafcutter ants Genus: Atta or Acromyrmex. ... the ant's mandibles snap shut in under a millisecond.

Performance, morphology and control of power-amplified mandibles in the trap-jaw ant Myrmoteras (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). The Journal of Experimental Biology , 2017; 220 (17): 3062 DOI: 10.1242 ...

“Unlike termites, carpenter ants do not eat wood,” writes Ashley Kulhanek and Curtis Young in an OSU post on ants and dead ...

Conversely, the hell ant, which is thought to have vanished around 65 million years ago, moves its mandibles in a vertical fashion. “Over 99% of all species that have ever lived have gone ...

Myrmoteras ants live in the tropics of Southeast Asia, where they feed primarily on springtails—tiny arthropods that launch themselves into the air like fleas when they detect a threat. Until they ...

But a cheetah isn’t the fastest animal in the world, even though a lot of people think it is. The animal that can move the fastest is actually a lot smaller: the Dracula ant.

This is what forces the ant to clamp its mandibles to a piece of vegetation. They also identified the presence of tiny bead-like toxins known as vesicles that may play a role in this contraction ...

When food is scarce, the repletes simply regurgitate the stored food and feed the colony. Leafcutter ants Genus: Atta or Acromyrmex. ... the ant's mandibles snap shut in under a millisecond.