Tiny pharaoh ants invade buildings and hospitals, moving along walls and pipes, defying all conventional control methods.

A kind of madness overtakes us in Zimbabwe when the rains come. There’s a frantic dash to the roadsides, along the railway lines, in the wetlands, around the cemeteries and on any piece of unused ...

Stinging ants that leave their victims with burning pain and are known to disrupt electrical and communication networks have been found in Bermuda, prompting a warning to residents from authorities.

Giuseppe Battaglia walks in his beautiful garden on the outskirts of Avola, on Sicily’s southeastern coast. He is wearing long socks and sneakers, despite the September sun and 30-degree-Celsius ...

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Tucson’s recent rainy spell wasn’t just exciting for us humans. All that welcome moisture also sent clouds of freshly hatched ants into the air with wings on their backs and one thing on their minds.

Weaver ants’ feet have an incredibly strong grip—individual members of one species can, without slipping, hold an entire dead bird hanging off the edge of a table. And the mighty insects rarely work ...

A video showing "piles" of ants spotted "writhing around" on what appears to be a sidewalk in Minnesota has gone viral on Reddit. The video was shared in a post titled "While out on a walk I came ...

A chain of weaver ants can easily outpull just about any other creature, pound for pound, making them one of the most formidable teams in the animal kingdom. Weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina), which ...

There are over 12,000 species of ants. Most are seen as pests that invade homes and take over pantries in their search for food. The majority of these ants are found marching on the floor, up walls, ...

Like battlefield medics, Florida carpenter ants are the first known animal to triage wounds and adapt treatments. In a first, researchers have observed that a species of Florida carpenter ant ...

Tanya Latty co-founded and volunteers for conservation organisation Invertebrates Australia, is former president of the Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour and is on the education ...