Plus, which ants are most prone to it, and why targeted baiting often works better.

Just like human societies, ant societies have a division of labor. Within a colony, some individuals feed the young while others are soldiers who protect the colony from intruders. New research across ...

In this video, an ant colony takes on a series of obstacle courses, demonstrating their remarkable teamwork and abilities.

The zombie ant fungus is the stuff of parasitic lore. Its mission typically goes something like this: an ant just out doing ant things happens to get dusted with the fungus’s spores, which punch ...

Finding ant eggs might make your skin crawl, especially if they're in or near your home. The best course of action may depend ...

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 ...

The ant species Leptothorax acervorum is found throughout the Northern hemisphere. While many populations have multiple queens, a few have only one queen that reproduces. And in those societies, ...

Ant colonies behave as 'superorganisms' rather than collections of individuals, a study from the University of Bristol has demonstrated. The study seeks to explain the behaviour of ant colonies as ...

For some would-be ant queens, the easiest way to take over a colony is to dupe its worker ants into committing regicide. The scientist E.O. Wilson once wrote that ants are the most warlike of all ...

Ants are notoriously much better than humans at organizing their collective traffic flow when foraging for food, but how they manage to do so isn’t fully understood. Even in dense, crowded conditions, ...

Learn the difference between termites and carpenter ants, including how they look, the damage they cause, and what Southern ...