Until at least the middle of the last century, Poona battled various insects, especially bedbugs and ants. The Europeans and ...

Whatever they are doing, bees take their jobs seriously, be it pollinating plants or nursing their young. They protect their ...

Now, a study published in the journal Nature has found that wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) can remember the location of ...

The ant scurries along on six nimble legs. It catches up to its peers, a line of antennaed bugs roaming the winding surface of a tree, perpetually hunting for food. While doing so, each ...

The engineering and defensive skills of red wood ants help the endangered species transcend its small stature in the natural world.

Ants — yes, ants — could protect apples, nuts, cocoa, and other beloved crops from disease and climate change.

‘What stuff have you got to do on a lovely sunny morning like this?’ ‘Gotta get this food shifted,’ said the Ant. The Grasshopper noticed that the Ant was dragging along a huge ear of corn.

There are only two animals capable of transporting an object so large that it can only be moved by cooperating: humans and ants. And not every species in the Formicidae family is capable of such a ...

The ants were manipulated into trying to solve the puzzle by making the t-shaped load resemble food. The experiment was run multiple times with different variations: a single ant, a group of about ...

These include some species of crickets, butterflies, and silverfish. Ant guests will exploit the food resources in the ant colony, but at a great risk to themselves. Ants are known to kill ...