Crazy ants are considered an invasive species, and being able to eradicate them comes down to telling them apart from other ...

Queen Iberian harvester ants are capable of storing and cloning the sperm from a cousin species, spawning hybrid offspring to ...

Some ant queens can produce offspring of more than one species – even when the other species is not known to exist in the ...

If you've spotted fire ants in your yard, here's what experts suggest for getting rid of them as quickly and safely as ...

When the researchers peered inside colonies of the Iberian harvester ant, they found two types of ant that looked very ...

Effective treatment methods differ across ant species, so it's important to know what kind of ants you're dealing with before ...

Ants have been the perfect representation of hard workers everywhere but a recent study reveals that colonies actually support worker inactivity in order to increase productivity.

An ant colony that survived for years in post-soviet nuclear weapon bunker by turning to cannibalism, has been set free, aided by researchers.

The 3,600-mile colony consists of billions of Argentine ants living in millions of nests that cooperate with one another. Normally, ants from different nests fight.

Like a brain, an ant colony operates without central control. Each is a set of interacting individuals, either neurons or ants, using simple chemical interactions that in the aggregate generate their ...