Published: Nov. 16, 2016
Longhorn Crazy Ants carry a morsel of food around a horseshoe-shaped Lego obstacle.

EBIO grad student Helen McCreery's research into group problem-solving strategies among longhorn crazy ants has been . Using a variety of Lego barricades (straight walls, cul-de-sacs, and traps) to block the paths of ants carrying a payload of tuna fish back to their nest, McCreery and her colleagues observed several methods the ants would use to find their way around. Their results were .