A study conducted by researchers from São Paulo State University (UNESP), in Brazil, and collaborators shows that lemon ...

Viewers on social media rushed to poke fun at the photo of ants piling debris around a poison trap to outsmart their captor.

In the world of social creatures, from humans to ants, the spread of behaviors through a group—known as social contagion—is a well-documented phenomenon. This process, driven by social ...

After flying ants were seen swarming Metro Vancouver earlier this week, we had some questions and got some tANTalizing ...

To quantify how reverse social contagion regulates ant behavior, the researchers examined individual ant activity amongst 12 colonies of harvester ants. These colonies varied in size from several ...

From tiny nuisances to powerful predators, ants are some of the most fascinating, diverse and sometimes deadliest insects on ...

A single mum claimed her home has been infested with bugs and mould as she worries about her three-year-old son's health ...

Ant genomes reveal how social insects evolved cooperation, preserved caste genes, and rewired chromosomes over 100 million ...

Source: Princeton University Press/with permission. Ants are fascinating and remarkably intelligent insects who live in complex social groups called colonies. 1,2 When I first learned about ant ...

The invasive Asian needle ant appears to have spread as far north as Massachusetts, bringing with it concerns over their ...

Leafcutter ants (Atta sexdens) exhibit a form of "social immune memory," recognizing and intensifying their response to a pathogenic fungus even 30 days post-exposure. This involves increased ...