Working in the rain? Why leaf-cutting ants stop foraging when it’s raining

Thermal tolerances differ between diurnal and nocturnal foragers in the ant Ectatomma ruidum

(2017) C. Esch et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Thermal constraints on foraging of tropical canopy ants

(2017) Michelle Elise Spicer et al.   OECOLOGIA

Dry habitats were crucibles of domestication in the evolution of agriculture in ants

(2017) Michael G. Branstetter et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Gone with the wind: short- and long-term responses of leaf-cutting ants to the negative effect of wind on their foraging activity

(2016) Andrea Marina Alma et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Social life and sanitary risks: evolutionary and current ecological conditions determine waste management in leaf-cutting ants

(2016) Alejandro G. Farji-Brener et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Desiccation resistance in tropical insects: causes and mechanisms underlying variability in a Panama ant community

(2016) Jelena Bujan et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Branching angles reflect a trade-off between reducing trail maintenance costs or travel distances in leaf-cutting ants

(2015) Alejandro Gustavo Farji-Brener et al.   ECOLOGY

Thermal adaptation generates a diversity of thermal limits in a rainforest ant community

(2014) Michael Kaspari et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

How Load-Carrying Ants Avoid Falling Over: Mechanical Stability during Foraging in Atta vollenweideri Grass-Cutting Ants

(2013) Karin Moll et al.   PLoS One

Information Needs at the Beginning of Foraging: Grass-Cutting Ants Trade Off Load Size for a Faster Return to the Nest

(2011) Martin Bollazzi et al.   PLoS One

Evolution of cold-tolerant fungal symbionts permits winter fungiculture by leafcutter ants at the northern frontier of a tropical ant-fungus symbiosis

(2011) U. G. Mueller et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Effect of trail pheromones and weather on the moving behaviour of the army ant Eciton burchellii

(2010) D. Califano et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Foraging grass-cutting ants (Atta vollenweideri) maintain stability by balancing their loads with controlled head movements

(2010) Karin Moll et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

The ‘truck-driver’ effect in leaf-cutting ants: how individual load influences the walking speed of nest-mates

(2010) ALEJANDRO G. FARJI-BRENER et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY