Articles for tag: Ants, Insect World, Nature Engineers, Nature Explained, Wild Nature

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Ants: Tiny Farmers, Architects, and Pest Controllers

Suhail Ahmed

They build underground cities without blueprints, farm food they can’t live without, and patrol crops like tireless bodyguards. For decades, ants were cast as picnic thieves and kitchen invaders, yet the real story is far wilder and far more useful to us. Scientists now read ant societies as living laboratories for agriculture, engineering, and sustainable ...