Florida carpenter ants treat injured mates by cleaning wounds or performing amputations. Study suggest the method depends on ...

The new study also revealed that it took nearly another 40 million years for ants to then develop higher agriculture. The ...

Ants are among nature's greatest success stories ... is former president of the Australasian Society for the Study of Animal ...

Housed in hundreds of transparent shoebox-size plastic containers, the ants are part of an ongoing effort to establish a new model system for studying behavioral epigenetics, or what Reinberg, who is ...

Led by Changqi Liu, an associate professor of food science at San Diego State University, the study delved into the flavors of four edible ant species to examine their culinary potential.

A team of scientists set out to determine how many ants live on Earth at any given time. The answer is astounding, to say the least.

All of this makes ants fascinating to study. We do research in several areas of ecology using ants like species interactions, climate change ecology, invasion ecology, and trophic ecology.

A study conducted by researchers from São Paulo State University (UNESP), in Brazil, and collaborators shows that lemon leafcutter ants (Atta sexdens) exhibit behaviors that go beyond so-called ...

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 ...

To study immune priming in invertebrates, Swiss and Panamanian researchers chose two that have plenty of time to build immunity: Lasius niger (above) and Formica selysi ant queens, which may live ...

The email from Trip Lamb, biology professor at Eastern Carolina University, said, “As a velvet ant sting survivor, you may appreciate the attached.” The attachment was a scientific paper titled ...