A new study shows how ants grow huge colonies by choosing numbers over strength and relying on teamwork instead of tough ...

The research focused on Lasius neglectus, a species of garden ant. Unlike adult workers, which can leave the nest to die when ...

Learn how ants traded individual protection for collective power — and what it reveals about how complex societies evolve.

Earth's most successful creatures, ants, form vast, organized societies. The Argentine ant, however, has created an astonishing supercolony spanning thousands of miles across Southern Europe. Billions ...

An ant colony is not just a group of insects. It is a single biological system spread across thousands or millions of bodies. This video explores how ant colonies communicate, adapt, and make ...

Humans benefit from caffeine in an assortment of ways, not the least of which is making that morning commute much more bearable. But a study recently published in iScience proves we aren’t the only ...

For some would-be ant queens, the easiest way to take over a colony is to dupe its worker ants into committing regicide. The scientist E.O. Wilson once wrote that ants are the most warlike of all ...

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

Discover the fascinating step-by-step process of creating a unique, spider-shaped DIY ant farm from scratch. Watch as acrylic and wood are skillfully cut and assembled into a detailed habitat, ...

Everything in the ant hill seems to need the liquid secretions from members of the colony that are in their pupal stage. By Joshua Sokol Orli Snir, a biologist at the Rockefeller University in New ...

Though many ants spend their lives peacefully tending fungus farms and herds of aphids, others have it much rougher. Such is the case with the ant species Megaponera analis, native to many parts of ...