Jumping ants: a sting can kill by Claudine Ryan When Claudine Ryan learned her adventurous little boy was allergic to native ant stings, it took many months before she felt confident to let him ...

Indian jumping ants can leap, making them one of only about 100 ant species capable of doing so, out of about 13,000 ant species known. National Geographic ...

Female Indian jumping ants that lose their bids for the crown can regrow their brains — a feat that has never been seen before in insects.

Indian jumping ants use their middle and hind legs to make incredible leaps several times their body size Learn how these ...

To "jump" with their jaws, trap-jaw ants stretch their massive mandibles wide and then snap them shut. Acting like a spring-loaded catapult, the closing snap shoots the ant out of harm's way.

Ants are the unlikely guardians of jumping spiders in their battle against aggressive spitting spiders. A timid jumping spider uses the scent of ants as a secret weapon to save itself from ...

These ants use two different body parts to jump forward and backward.

Full Transcript: Sheila Patek: Trap-jaw ant's are ants that use their jaws for capturing prey, for fighting other ants, launching themselves in the air literally jumping with their jaws.

A timid jumping spider uses the scent of ants as a secret weapon to save itself from becoming the soggy prey of the predatory spitting spider. The downside to this plan is that jumping spiders are ...

Like most ant colonies, those of Indian jumping ants consist of a queen, males for reproduction and an all-female worker class. The queen holds the most coveted position in the colony.

To "jump" with their jaws, trap-jaw ants stretch their massive mandibles wide and then snap them shut. Acting like a spring-loaded catapult, the closing snap shoots the ant out of harm's way.

A timid jumping spider uses the scent of ants as a secret weapon to save itself from becoming the soggy prey of the predatory spitting spider. The downside to this plan is that jumping spiders are ...