In addition to serving as biochemical weapons for offense and defense, the venoms produced by ants in the subfamily Formicinae also fulfill additional roles. For example, the ants use it to protect ...

Warmer temperatures mean summer is well on its way, but it also means something else: The bugs are out. Anything that crawls, ...

He stopped during a hike to show the tiny sand funnels made by ant lions. Most of them looked harmless, until he found one bigger than any he had seen before. Then an ant slipped into the trap right ...

Ants have long been employed to study topics from engineering to cooperative problem solving, and now researchers have made ...

The Asian needle ant is more common in the southeastern part of the country, but it has been reported in Wisconsin.

It doesn’t look like a fire ant. It doesn’t sting like one either. And it may already be in your yard.

Gardeners battling ants invading their lawns, patios and flowerbeds might have just the solution hiding in their kitchen ...

There's a black market for seemingly everything, including for the illegal sale of ants. Yes, ants. And business is booming. Kate Knibbs is a senior writer at Wired, where she recently wrote about the ...

What Is a Flying Ant? Flying ants, also known as alates, are swarming adult hive members of various ant species. Ants have complex societies that require each subgroup of ants to perform different ...

In humans, social complexity usually involves clear governance hierarchies, with leaders and middle managers directing our ...