One kind of tiny ant can serve as a monumental example for how to keep members of a community safe from pathogens. A new ...

Recent observations have unveiled a fascinating phenomenon: ants, much like humans, adapt their behavior to maintain distance ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, we had to completely reorganize our spaces to avoid close contact. Transparent barriers ...

Stories of camel spiders and their aggressive nature have been told for generations. Tales of these critters running at high ...

Playing dead is a common defense mechanism in the animal kingdom, but scientists in Australia have discovered an example on a whole new scale. Entire colonies of ants were found to be feigning death, ...

"There are no native ants in Hawai'i, and invasive ants like little fire ants can have major adverse impacts on ecosystems, agriculture, and human and animal health," DLNR Chair Dawn Chang said in a ...

Leafcutter ants of the American tropics exemplify animals that exhibit superorganism status, advanced social organization and symbiosis. As you walk through the jungle you become aware of these ...

Think of it as mathematics with a bite: Researchers at CU Boulder have uncovered the statistical rules that govern how gigantic colonies of fire ants form bridges, ladders and floating rafts. In the ...

This article is reposted from the old Wordpress incarnation of Not Exactly Rocket Science. An ant nest is sheltered, well defended and stocked with food, but one that takes time to build and protect.

Like a brain, an ant colony operates without central control. Each is a set of interacting individuals, either neurons or ants, using simple chemical interactions that in the aggregate generate their ...

April 15 (UPI) --Not all ants serve a single queen. Researchers have discovered colonies of tropical fire ants, insects native to Florida and coastal Georgia, living under the rule of multiple queens.