A tiny Caribbean ant fossil, Basiceros enana, trapped in amber reveals a lost species and rewrites the evolutionary history.

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In late 2017, a study by Krefeld Entomological Society looked at protected areas across Germany and discovered that two-thirds of the insect populations living in there had vanished over the last 25 ...

What's worse than an ant bite? A fire ant bite. Fire ants, as their name might suggest, are reddish insects with stingers and venom pouches that they may use to attack areas of exposed skin, according ...

Researchers discovered that Mediterranean ants are having babies that belong to a different species. Researchers observed queens of the Mediterranean harvester ant species Messor ibericus, left, ...

A unit of the Chinese fintech conglomerate Ant Group is tokenizing more than $8 billion worth of energy infrastructure on its own blockchain. Ant Digital Technologies, the enterprise solutions arm of ...

Iberian harvester ant queens have a unique superpower: They can lay eggs that hatch into an entirely different species. This discovery, described in a new paper published September 3 in the journal ...

New research offers fresh insight into how different morphological types and social roles emerge in ant societies, confirming that size is coupled to caste, with genes ultimately deciding how size and ...

Asian needle ants, native to China and Japan, are spreading across the Eastern and Southern United States. Their sting is painful and can cause severe allergic reactions, even being described as ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. An insect native to Asia is slowly making its way through the U.S. — and it has a deadly sting. The Asian needle ant, first ...

If you don't like the feeling of being stabbed by a needle, then you'll want to be sure to keep an eye out for Asian Needle Ants. Native to Asia, the insects are known as Brachyponera chinensis ...