Social insects

The webbing of the clustered citrus bar is unique. Photo: Olaf Leillinger, CC BY-SA 2.5

Spiders for tomatoes

The desert locust eats grass. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The secret of the locust: how do solitary and harmless grasshoppers turn into a predatory swarm that devours every plant in its path?

Researchers at Tel Aviv University found a connection between a bacterium in the grasshopper's gut and the destructive phenomenon of swarming and migration
A bumble bee sucks nectar and in the process pollinates a flower. Photo: shutterstock

Things that insects know: can insects learn?

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Until a few decades ago, insects were considered mindless automatons whose actions are guided by instincts and reflexes, but it turns out that they are also much smarter than was commonly thought
A bridge of ants. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Things that Yoram knows: Go to the ant

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Nir looks in amazement at the rows of industrious ants and asks: Is there slavery in nature? Are the workers enslaved to the queen?
The winner of the Wolf Prize for Agriculture, Prof. Gene Robinson, a few minutes after winning on the balcony of the Knesset. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

"With the help of the insight we received from decoding the genome of the bees, we will be able to fight the collapse of the beehives"

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Ants in Bigodi wetlands in Uganda. Photo: shutterstock

The wisdom of crowds of ants

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Ants: photo: shutterstock

Ants that have randomly acquired knowledge "take command" temporarily, and their companions accept their leadership as a kind of "order of the hour"

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Ants light structure. Illustration: shutterstock

Small services / Jason J. Goldman

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Harvard PhD student Christine Petersen and faculty member Justin Werfel near a large termite nest in Namibia. Photo: Harvard University

Construction without management inspired by termites

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Carpenter ants - feed on furniture. From Wikipedia (CC license)

The social network of the ants

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An ant marked with a barcode in Dr. Feinerman's laboratory. Photo: Weizmann Institute

The social network

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Legionary ants of the species Eciton burchellii. From Wikipedia

Legionnaires

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Comb leg spider

Evil spiders are actually very good mothers

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