Giant harvester ants are native to Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia and live in large colonies of about 5,000 ants. They primarily eat seeds, which they collect and store in their nests, thereby ...

A Kenyan court on Wednesday fined four men $7,700 each for trying to traffic thousands of ants valuable to the country's ...

“Harvester ants are seed collectors, and they gather (the seeds) as food for themselves, storing these in their nests,” Martins said. “A single large harvester ant colony can collect several ...

NAIROBI — A Kenyan court on Wednesday fined four men $7,700 each for trying to traffic thousands of ants valuable to the ...

A Kenyan court on Wednesday fined four men $7,700 each for trying to traffic thousands of ants valuable to the country's ecosystem, in cases experts say signal a shift in biopiracy from trophies like ...