Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An ant species can amputate each other's legs and can also determine whether it is needed depending on the location of the wound, ...

A newfound nocturnal navigation system challenges what entomologists thought they knew about how ants find their way ...

There’s a new ant–agonist on the pesticide market. According to a review published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, trees protected by weaver ants have less pests, less plant damage, and show an ...

Researchers in Japan discovered that ants placed in isolation die younger due to an accumulation of reactive oxygen, a ...

Ants are among the most physically fragile insects on the planet, yet they dominate almost every land habitat and outweigh many larger animals in total biomass. New research argues that this success ...

Researchers from the University of Hong Kong and the University of Würzburg in Germany found that there are more ants than there are birds and mammals combined on Earth. In a recent study published in ...

Texas is known for its extreme heat and diverse wildlife, but one of the state’s most persistent pests is also one of its ...