Overloaded leafcutter ants develop “blind spots” that slow their movement - showing how nature’s most efficient workers hit sensory limits.

Ants who receive a caffeine-laced sugary reward become more efficient at navigating back to the reward’s location compared to ants that only receive sugar. Researchers report on May 23 in the journal ...

Of the nonnative animals crawling, buzzing and slithering across the American South, very few are officially designated “crazy.” The crazy ant is an exception. When a Texas exterminator, Tom Rasberry, ...