Ants may also come inside in search of water, particularly when the weather is hot. Some species prefer to build their nests ...

The short answer to “Why are there ants everywhere?” is simply this: We live on a planet where ants outnumber us by an almost ...

Ants, boasting around 22,000 species globally, are nature's unsung heroes, playing vital roles in the ecosystem. Particularly ...

Ants are among nature’s greatest success stories, with an estimated 22,000 species worldwide. Tropical Australia in ...

Pheromone-binding proteins have been implicated in pathways that promote species recognition 11. The pheromone bound by GP-9 in fire ants remains to be identified, but intriguing possibilities emerge.

Sydney: Ants are among nature’s greatest success stories, with an estimated 22,000 species worldwide. Tropical Australia, in ...

“They are social insects and use a huge range of pheromones to communicate with one another,” Gooding said. After discovering ...

(Why invasive ants are a bigger threat than previously thought.) Ants communicate and cooperate by secreting pheromones, or scent chemicals, that can alert others to danger or lead them to a ...

The researchers from Nara Women’s University and other institutions said a whiff of a pheromone found naturally on the body surface of the Japanese carpenter ant, a native species, causes the ...

You may call them "sugar ants," but that's a colloquialism for a number of types of small ants that get into your kitchen.

ADAM:'An ant's sense of smell is vital to them, but they don’t use noses like us. They use their antennae to detect special chemicals that they lay on the groundcalled pheromones. ADAM:'To find ...