One kind of tiny ant can serve as a monumental example for how to keep members of a community safe from pathogens. A new ...

Stories of camel spiders and their aggressive nature have been told for generations. Tales of these critters running at high speeds and taking down camels have made the species notorious across the ...

This video showcases the expansion of a Western Harvester Ant colony over the past 30 days. It documents their lifestyle, ...

Argentine ants from three huge colonies in Europe, America and Japan are actually part of one global super-colony, scientists have revealed. The aggressive insects were first native to South America ...

Ants have an incredible capacity to work together for the good of the collective, but a freshly discovered species shows just how far they are willing to go. Colobopsis explodens has been observed in ...

Like a brain, an ant colony operates without central control. Each is a set of interacting individuals, either neurons or ants, using simple chemical interactions that in the aggregate generate their ...

Humans are smarter than ants, but in some ways ant colonies are smarter than organizations of humans. Look, for example, at the way in which an ant colony finds food. At the start, the ants wander at ...

Discover how ant queens of Messor ibericus produce drones of two species, revealing unique reproductive strategies and cloning phenomena.

An invasive ant species native to East Asia has spread to every corner of North Carolina, and it can cause health and ...

For creatures with very small brains, ants build strikingly complex societies. How a colony of hundreds or thousands of ants maintains order remains poorly understood, but new high tech research ...

As far as wartime sacrifices go, it’s hard to beat the plight of the wood ants of Templewo, Poland. There, near the border of Germany, a large colony has established over a Soviet nuclear arms base ...