The whistling thorn trees and the acacia ants had a steady, mutualistic relationship and supported each other for many years. Then – an invasive ant disturbed their relationship, setting off a ...

Citations. R. Cortés-Romay and S.A. Vargas. Horse-hair fungus used in bird nests alters the behaviour of acacia ants.Animal Behaviour. Vol. 216, October 2024, p.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Regina Barber and Pien Huang of Short Wave about a double emergence of cicadas this spring, invasive ants in Kenya, and the secrets in an ancient wad of chewing gum.

Lions, elephants, zebras, buffalo, ants, and trees are all locked in an intricate ecological web in one Kenyan nature preserve. But that web is unraveling as a small invader disrupts the natural ...

The trees feed and house the acacia ants, and in exchange, the ants attack elephants that try to snack on—and sometimes uproot—the trees. Big-headed ants kill native ants of the genus ...

There are more than 20,000 species of ants, including such noticables as picnic ants, sidewalk ants, carpenter ants, and so on. Less noted by most of us, there are also many mutualistic ants that ...

So, let’s meet the ant acacia tree (and its ants). There are three species of ant acacias which are trees that grow in Costa Rica, known as cornizuelo en español. Two are found in Guanacaste and the ...

Relationship: In African savannas, ants and acacia trees have formed a mutualistic relationship. The acacia tree provides shelter and food (nectar and specialized nodules) for the ants, while the ...