The Year the Leaf-Cutter Ants Took Manhattan In January, the American Museum of Natural History’s new insectarium gained 500,000 tenants. It has taken them some time to find their footing.
Inside the Scramble to Make a Half-Million Ants Feel at Home The American Museum of Natural History is unveiling an enormous new exhibit of leafcutter ants. Making it happen was no picnic.
Justin O. Schmidt, Entomologist Known as ‘King of Sting,’ Dies at 75 Studying the venom of bees, wasps and ants, he was stung hundreds of times and famously ranked the stings in a colorful pain scale index.
This Acrobatic Hunting Trick Is Straight Out of the Spider-Verse A small Australian spider uses a Cirque du Soleil-worthy tactic to prey on fierce ants.