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 ...

Ant Anstead noted the one specific quality his son gets from his mom Christina Haack on Friday, March 28, sharing a photo via ...

A 99-million-year-old amber fossil captures a prehistoric 'hell ant' devouring its prey, providing the first-ever glimpse ...

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

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

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

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

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’ ...

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 ...

They focused on ant species where the queens found new colonies alone and without the help of workers. "Interestingly, these founding queens are not yet specialized in terms of their behavior at ...