They’re usually dark brown or black, and don’t grow as large as some other types of ants. According to Michael Skvarla, Ph.D., assistant research professor of Arthropod Identification at Penn ...

Symbiotic relationships between species are both common and incredible, including those between ants and these four insects, ...

The engineering and defensive skills of red wood ants help the endangered species transcend its small stature in the natural world.

ADAM:'The ants in a colony are not all the same. There are different types of ant, and each have a different job to do from the queen that lays the eggs, to the soldiers that defend the nest.

A velvet ant bite like “hot oil from the deep fryer” delivers an array of peptides that inflicts pain on insects and mammals alike.

The ant scurries along on six nimble legs. It catches up to its peers, a line of antennaed bugs roaming the winding surface of a tree, perpetually hunting for food. While doing so, each ...

The species of ant crickets from the Myrmecophilus genus can infiltrate ant colonies, despite the potentially lethal defences that ants have developed to fight back. Now, a team at Nagoya ...

Do ants relocate? How do they do it? What happens to their offspring? Sumana Annagiri, professor at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, answered these and more questions ...

“Kind of like a multitool for farmers.” With an estimated 20 quadrillion ants on Earth at any given time, the bugs are found just about everywhere on the planet. They are also among the species that ...