Despite their tiny size, ants are able to accomplish absolutely incredible feats. They can build amazingly intricate nests, ...

From an airplane, cars crawling down the highway look like ants. But actual ants—unlike cars—somehow manage to avoid the scourge of stop-and-go traffic. Researchers are now studying these insects’ ...

Within the many thousands of known ant species, there are many that fill unique ecological roles, resulting in the development of special physical characteristics and interesting behavior.

“Ants provide this amazing system to help understand some of the determinants of behavior because of this remarkably stereotypic social structure,” said Berger. Now, her team is investigating whether ...

A study conducted by researchers from São Paulo State University (UNESP), in Brazil, and collaborators shows that lemon ...

Characteristics of social immune memory were observed in colonies of Atta sexdens exposed to four different pathogenic fungi.

Leafcutter ants appear to remember past infections and respond more aggressively to familiar threats, according to a new ...

could have led Azteca alfari ants to evolve the observed repair behavior when their host plant is damaged. Their experiment also left them with new questions, since not all of the ant colonies ...

Australia is grappling with a surge in venomous red fire ant populations after heavy rains forced them above ground. These ...

Flies in this genus are the subject of considerable interest because they have the potential of being used as classical biological control agents against imported fire ants in North America. This ...

Social behavior consists of a set of interactions ... The most highly social animals form tightly knit colonies and include all ants and termites, some bees and wasps, and a few other organisms.

An ant capable of flight wrought havoc on an island off the coast of the Japanese mainland, over 100km away from Jeju Island itself, indicating that the Jeju Island ants have experienced some kind ...