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 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.

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

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

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’ ...

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 ...

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

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

NARA--The use of smell could be a key weapon in repelling and controlling invasive ant species from South America, scientists learned. The researchers from Nara Women’s University and other ...

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