If ants are so successful out in nature, why do they so often turn up in our homes and even upper-level apartments? And what ...

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’ ...

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

https://doi.org/10.2307/3496014 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/3496014 The effectiveness of microbial controls for pest ants can be reduced by ant behaviors ...

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

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

About 99 million years ago, this horned "hell ant" was in the midst of devouring a prehistoric cockroach when it got stuck in ...

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 ...

While the native species had long been adapted to their environment, Argentine ants have different dietary preferences and, therefore, different behavior. In areas where the Argentine ants had ...