Florida carpenter ants treat injured mates by cleaning wounds or performing amputations. Study suggest the method depends on ...

Ants are common insects, but they have some unique capabilities—including their legendary communication skills that allow their colonies to function as superorganisms. Invasive ant species are ...

In the late ‘90s, Cameron Currie, now a professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin, traversed through the Panamanian rainforest to observe the world’s most ancient agriculturalists: leaf ...

WITH spring finally here, we can finally say hello to blue skies and warmer days. But the lush weather and brighter nights unfortunately also brings the annual chaos of ant infestations. It’s ...

Ants are a wildly successful sector of nature’s bestiary, accounting for maybe a quarter of all terrestrial animal matter—the same percentage of biomass that we humans can claim. They’re ...