These are driver ants (the Dorylus species from Africa) and army ants (the Eciton species from South America). These particular species are both blind and follow scent trails to forage.

Enter the ants. Army ants (belonging to the genus Dorylus) in central and eastern Africa are known for the raids they lead, with millions of individuals marching in lines stretching tens of metres.

perseus as a close relative to eyeless species of army ants currently found in Africa and Southern Asia, named Dorylus. [Related: Ants have teeth. Here’s how they keep them sharp.] When this ...

Franks and his colleagues found penny-farthing duos in the Central American Eciton burchelli and the smaller African Dorylus wilverthi. How big and little ants team up is a mystery. Army ant lines ...

The pair here are from different orders but the beetle has achieved a level of physical, behavioural and olfactory mimicry that convinces the ant that it is “one of its own!” The beetle , one of many ...

And a parallel can be seen in the fact that the jaglavak are Dorylus ants, which move from place to place and do not seem to have a territory, just like the Movo, who no longer have their own ...

Schneirla of the American Museum of Natural History published a study detailing the behavior occurring in a colony of army ants in 1944. Schneirla observed the ants were stuck walking in a circle ...