The ant scurries along on six nimble legs. It catches up to its peers, a line of antennaed bugs roaming the winding surface ...

Tarantulas are hairy so that the army ants cleaning their homes don't eat them alive, a new study suggests. The study, published Aug. 6 in the Journal of Natural History, proposes several new ...

(Much like termites, which cause far more severe damage.) Some species, such as army ants, defy the norm and do not have permanent homes. (Why invasive ants are a bigger threat than previously ...

unlike the gula ant (which the Kapsiki, another ethnic group of the Mandara Mountains, enlist for the same job). One might wonder about the conduct of the Dorylus soldiers deprived of the mass ...

Some families of caterpillars (larvae of butterflies and moths) have developed a specific kind of interaction with ants. One ...

However, in the real world, a meat ant might find itself overwhelmed in combat by the sheer numbers of Argentine soldier ants that show up to battle. The researchers aimed to determine how this ...

“Ants are a Swiss Army knife,” said Jensen, a biologist who studies the symbiotic relationship between ants and agriculture at Aarhus University in Denmark. “Kind of like a multitool for ...