For ants, the ability to instantly distinguish nestmates from outsiders who might hijack the colony is crucial. Now, a new study shows that the system that ants use to determine who belongs in the ...

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Are fire ant mounds popping up in your yard, garden or pasture? As temperatures rise, so does fire ant activity. The good news is that science-backed ways to control fire ants can eliminate entire ...

Humans are not the only animals to have a dedicated health care system. Some super-organized ant species not only recognize that their comrade is injured but actually carry them back to the ant nest ...

Reporter Paul Linnman and photographer Doug Brazil visited the Oregon Coast on November 12, 1970 during what eventually became known as the Exploding Whale Incident. (KATU) FLORENCE, Ore. (Amazing ...

The exploding ant, known scientifically as Colobopsis explodens, has one of the most extreme defense mechanisms in the animal kingdom. When threatened, certain worker ants rupture their own bodies, ...

Ants are among the most dynamic of the “little things that run the world,” as the late biologist E. O. Wilson described insects. They build complex communities, travel widely and are ubiquitous. There ...

An ant that can turn carbon dioxide in the air into dolomite stone in its exoskeleton may hold clues to how humans can sequester greenhouse gases to avert climate disaster. Fungus-farming ants forage ...

Welcome to the weird side of nature and the story of exploding ants. In the humid forests of Malaysia, a worker ant belonging to the genus Colobopsis carefully guards the entrance to a nest. As an ...

Researchers have investigated the communication between two insect species, and what they discovered seems straight out of Tarzan. Some butterfly caterpillars vibrate in an unexpectedly complex ...

Some butterfly species can’t grow unless they trick ants into taking them home with a complex rhythmic signal. By Rebecca Dzombak Rebecca Dzombak has reported on parasitic ant queens and the number of ...