Georgia Tech researchers (l-r) Daniel Goldman and Michael Goodisman pose with a tube containing simulated soil used to study tunnels being made by fire ants. They are holding examples of nests ...

Enthusiastically social insects, ants typically live in structured nest communities that may be located underground, in ground-level mounds, or in trees. Carpenter ants, which include more than a ...

A lot of babies. Their mother, the queen, roams around the nest while laying 1,500 eggs a day! Now, all those baby ants need to live in a narrow temperature range to grow, so that nest sports ...

“Full of ant” is how Ingo described himself after lying next to the ants’ nest for just a few minutes. Ingo watched as the red wood ants carved an already dead beetle into pieces small enough to fit ...

They are less fussy about their habitat than their red counterparts, and Coed y Brenin provides an ideal habitat for them, and their nests are scattered across the forest floor. Red wood ants are ...