"By dabbing larvae with methoprene, a chemical that mimics juvenile hormone, Abouheif and his team could induce supersoldiers in species that normally lack them."

"I installed an ant colony inside my scanner five years ago. I scanned the nest each week."

"Spatial perception can easily be acquired if two separate sensory organs are available, such as two eyes for visual orientation. [...] Stereo smelling in animals is not new -- rats and humans are thought to have this ability as well."

"The spores penetrate an insect’s exoskeleton and then work their way into its body, where fungus then starts to grow. Meanwhile, the insect wanders up a plant and clamps down, whereupon Cordyceps grows a long stalk that sprouts of the dead host’s body. It can then shower down spores on unfortunate insects below."

"Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same inter-related colony, and will refuse to fight one another."

"Billions of tiny reddish-brown ants have arrived onshore from a cargo ship and are hell-bent on eating anything electronic."

"In one version of the experiment, each person was instructed simply to stay with the group. As Dr. Couzin’s model predicted, they tended to circle around in a doughnut-shaped flock."

A fairly standard combo-pushing beat-em-up, but the scale, destructability and pick-up-and-throw-ability of the environment makes it more entertaining. The physics are good enough to be funny, and the giant ant handles nicely.

"The upshot of all this is that Mothra is going to have to add a lot of tracheal tubes to maintain a sufficient oxygen supply."

"[Scientists] set some ants off on a foraging trip along a tunnel, but once they had reached the food their legs were manipulated to either make them longer by adding stilts, or shorter by partially amputating them."

Cruel-sounding ant football. "The organizers of the game used this natural ability to make the ants 'ant-agonize' each other, by feeding the Japanese team with Kagoshima pork and the Brazilian team with spare ribs in order to alter the ants' pheromones."

Plaster-casts of ant nests. A horribly apocalyptic-sounding idea. "The sandy soils of the Florida coastal plains allow the plaster slurry to displace the air within the chambers, filling them completely."

Full text online, including a chapter on ant trails I'd forgotten about; making them leave his larder by setting up fake sugar sources and ferrying them around on folded paper.

"[Myrmelachista schumanni] could be responsible for cultivating large clumps of trees in the Amazonian rainforest that are made up almost entirely of one species, Duroia hirsuta, which, according to local legend, are cultivated by an evil forest spirit."

"The ants are always hiding just under the holes, waiting with their mandibles open. When an insect arrives they immediately grab the legs and antennae [...] stretching it out as though being tortured on a mediaeval rack."

"Punishment among insects is meted out by ordinary workers - and sometimes the queen herself - says Wenseleers, who has watched dozens of hours of black-and-white videos from infrared security cameras that he's trained on nests of tree wasps."

"It surprised me that no one had ever done a game about ants, and I kept waiting and waiting, and they never did. So it felt like something that I had to do, because I wanted to play it."

"Xtreme Ants features highly detailed Xtreme Sports Park with trick towers, vertical ramps, gravity loops, climbing wall, bungee ravine, street luge speedway, and BMX biking arena."

Genetically-similar imported ant colonies merge to form a single, giant ant utopia, instead of fighting each other like they're supposed to.

Plastic tray with a built-in moat, to discourage foraging ants. But would it work on a determined army?

"Each player assumes the role of an ant colony."