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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ant carrying a Maculinea butterfly caterpillar. (CREDIT: Vibrant Lab, Torino) If you were small enough to fit inside an ant nest, ...

Some people change careers, and it seems that the Harpegnathos saltator ant can do the same; worker ants can switch to queen-like figures that are known as gamergates. Worker ants are not able to ...

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) has been found to play a significant role in controlling behavior critical to how ant colonies function, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at ...

Ants marching across garden soil can feel like a tiny summer parade, except nobody sent invitations. Seeing them crawling around flower beds or near plant roots often sparks curiosity, because their ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

Army ants form some of the largest insect societies on the planet. They are quite famous in popular culture, most notably from a terrifying scene in Indiana Jones. But they are also ecologically ...

A new study shows that biochar, widely promoted as a climate-smart soil amendment, can significantly reshape the social lives ...