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 ...

Ants were farming more than 60 million years before humans first planted crops, according to new research. Insect agriculture ...

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’ ...

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

Velvet ants have enormous stingers ― half their body length ― and the research paper focused on the full defense system of ...

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

Some families of caterpillars (larvae of butterflies and moths) have developed a specific kind of interaction with ants. One of these families (Riodinidae) includes two species that interact ...

Ants are diverse and widespread. They are ecologically and economically important. They make a living in various ways in almost every corner of the earth. All of this makes ants fascinating to study.

The next time you’re outside, look down. Odds are, you might spot one of Earth’s estimated 20 quadrillion ants scurrying around. Depending on where you are, you may detect an Argentine ant.

This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s good to be the queen—the ant queen, that is—because mating does wonders for her immune system. When exposure ...

The Scarlet Velvet Ant, which is actually a type of wasp, has a sting so painful that it feels like hot oil spilling over ...