Weaver ants work as a team to build bridges and create nests in trees. Nature has once again proven to be an efficient designer, showing time and again how ant teamwork is much better than that of ...

Anyone who has dealt with ants in the kitchen knows that ants are highly social creatures; it's rare to see one alone. Humans are social creatures too, even if some of us enjoy solitude. Ants and ...

Think back to a time you helped someone move a heavy object, such as a couch. While at first the task may have appeared simple, it actually required a suite of advanced behaviors. The job needed ...

Anyone who has dealt with ants in the kitchen knows that ants are highly social creatures; it’s rare to see one alone. Humans are social creatures too, even if some of us enjoy solitude. Ants and ...

For many, the sudden arrival of ants in the home is nothing more than a natural occurrence linked to food crumbs, seasonal ...

While humans may think of agriculture as a uniquely human achievement, ants have been farming their own food for millions of years, a new study has revealed. Researchers found that ants began ...

Imagine this - you're locked in a grueling game of tug-of-war, pulling as hard as you can to keep your team from going down. More people join, and you're pulling with all your strength, or are you?

Like human armies, army ants spell trouble for anything that finds itself in their path. The insects make a habit of killing organisms, often much larger than themselves, breaking them into pieces and ...

Sicily is on the front line of Europe’s fire ant invasion. If it fails to contain the spread, more countries will be at risk.

Ants have evolved an acute sense of smell, which requires each sensory neuron to choose one scent receptor out of hundreds.

An invasive ant species native to East Asia has spread to every corner of North Carolina, and it can cause health and ...