The first time Marcela Cosarinsky saw a nest of Atta vollenweideri leaf-cutter ants, it was the late 1990s and she was in an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A red ant on a leaf Ants are, more often than not, relatively harmless bugs to have in your yard, but if their nest is tearing up ...

After witnessing the interactions in an Arizona desert, a Smithsonian researcher suggests that the little ants picked off ...

Some large marine fish are known to seek out distinct “cleaning stations” where smaller fish and shrimp eat dead skin ...

Scientists discover desert ants forming a rare cleaning partnership, challenging what we know about insect behavior and ...

In the deserts of southeastern Arizona, harvester ants congregate with serrated jaws agape outside the nests of much smaller cone ants. However, the nests’ inhabitants are not threatened. Instead, ...

Maybe you’ve spotted a single ant wandering around on the kitchen floor, or perhaps there’s a trail of them marching across the counter. Regardless, it’s time to act fast. “Once a worker finds food, ...

Some ants have figured out how to keep from getting lost: Build taller anthills. Desert ants that live in the hot, flat salt pans of Tunisia spend their days looking for food. Successful grocery runs ...

At first glance, the world of ants may seem far removed from our everyday lives. Yet, on closer inspection, they often face ...

A unique “choreography” between two ant species suggests a distinctive partnership in which one provides a carwash service to ...

Argentine ants are among the most destructive invasive insects on the planet, forming supercolonies that stretch across ...