As individuals, driver ants are small and relatively insignificant creatures. But as a colony, they transform into a huge and ...

An invasive species of stinging, carnivorous ants has been slowly spreading across the U.S. and now is found in about 20 states, including two on Michigan's doorstep. Asian needle ants haven't been ...

With the tremendous amount of water that was dropped on the Houston area, flooding was expected. With flooding comes the problem of various "critters" trying to find safe dry ground. Fire ants are no ...

Army ants build living bridges by linking their bodies to span gaps and create shortcuts across rainforests in Central and South America. An international team of researchers has now discovered these ...

A team of physicists at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel has found that when ants of a certain species collectively carry a large object, they do so in a way that mimics a self-propelled ...

Ants are hard workers, but they’re not multitaskers: They have to stop to think. Temnothorax albipennis worker ants typically need a pit stop to change their travel plans, researchers in England ...