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

a group of ants crawling on a tree branch

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 ...

brown winged insect in macro shot

The Fly That Punches With the Speed of a Bullet

Suhail Ahmed

On a hot afternoon in a scrubby meadow, a speck of a hunter lifted off a grass blade and vanished in a straight, ruthless line. A heartbeat later, it reappeared with another insect pinned beneath it, like a tiny prizefighter landing a clean right. For a long time, biologists assumed such aerial takedowns demanded big ...