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

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

So the best cheesesteak in Philly was never in Philly to begin with. It was everywhere else — in West Chester and ...

These ants were observed treating injured limbs of ... Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. "In this study, we describe for the first time how a non-human animal uses amputations ...

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 ...

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 ...

Of the four pathogens tested, two were harmful to the ants and two to the cultivated fungi. The study is part of a project supported by FAPESP and coordinated by André Rodrigues, professor at IB-UNESP ...