Sub-Saharan Matabele ants are known to be precision hunters, but it’s their tender side that recently caught the attention of scientists. The ants, officially called Megaponera, often get hurt hunting ...

Scientists discover a “runaway bulldozer” in ant DNA that silences smell genes, keeping chemical communication - and colony ...

As a camel spider attacks an ant colony, it does not eat them. Just why, then, does the camel spider work in quick order to ...

Fire ants excel at human assisted spread, which makes any construction or mining supply chain a risk if controls lapse.

Even the smallest creature can have a huge impact, as one species of ant is demonstrating in New York City. Since first being spotted in the Big Apple in 2011, the Lasius emarginatus — which is native ...

The central European bicolored ant, L. emarginatus, forages along a tree branch in New York City’s Riverside Park. Frank Sinatra famously sang that if you can make it in New York, you can make it ...

Ants have evolved an acute sense of smell, which requires each sensory neuron to choose one scent receptor out of hundreds.