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In this video, Dr. Joe Hanson and the Be Smart team deliver everything you didn’t realize you wanted to know about fire ants. Special appearance by ant-decapitating flies. Enjoy!
Keep learning about ants!
Check out Matabele ants in Ant-ibiotics: How Ants Treat Infections
Read up on how Ants’ Love of Pee May Reduce Greenhouse Gas
Or get involved in a Citizen Science project and Invite Ants to Your Picnic… for Science!
Cancer treatment scientists have developed an add-on therapy that could help patients’ own immune systems tackle resilient cancers.
By Kate Stone Around the world, honey bees are in decline and under constant threat from parasites. This ongoing problem…
Human cells need iron, and so does bacteria. Bacteria make siderophores, scavenger molecules that leave the cell to poach iron from hosts.