Ants may also come inside in search of water, particularly when the weather is hot. Some species prefer to build their nests ...

Researchers thought colder temperatures and higher elevations could stop the march of invasive fire ants across NC. Mother ...

Ants have always been a problem pest in our homes but many Aussies are reporting more frequent infestations and less success with traditional control methods. There are two key reasons we're seeing ...

Ants, boasting around 22,000 species globally, are nature's unsung heroes, playing vital roles in the ecosystem. Particularly ...

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

https://doi.org/10.2307/3496014 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/3496014 The effectiveness of microbial controls for pest ants can be reduced by ant behaviors ...

Three species of fire ants have been found in North Carolina: red imported fire ants, black fire ants, and hybrid fire ants.

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’ ...

could have led Azteca alfari ants to evolve the observed repair behavior when their host plant is damaged. Their experiment also left them with new questions, since not all of the ant colonies ...

“Ants provide this amazing system to help understand some of the determinants of behavior because of this remarkably stereotypic social structure,” said Berger. Now, her team is investigating whether ...

Characteristics of social immune memory were observed in colonies of Atta sexdens exposed to four different pathogenic fungi. The insects increased their cleaning behavior one week and one month after ...

Seven days after contamination with one pathogen, they exposed the ants to another. Cleaning behavior and recruitment of other workers were less intense when this second pathogen was introduced.