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 ...

Keep calm and carry on building. That’s the motto of 100,000 or so wood ants stranded without food in a nuclear bunker until they starve. Wood ants (Formica polyctena) typically build a cosy mound ...

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 ...