Ants may seem harmless, but some species pose serious threats due to their venom, aggressive behavior, or destructive habits.

The sting of a female velvet ant is one of the most painful in the animal kingdom. Now, researchers have discovered that these insects have multiple proteins in their venom that make it ...

A velvet ant bite like “hot oil from the deep fryer” delivers an array of peptides that inflicts pain on insects and mammals alike.

A strange invader is marching across the United States, born of two different species. Red fire ants and black fire ants have ...

The engineering and defensive skills of red wood ants help the endangered species transcend its small stature in the natural world.

Japan has designated the Argentine ant and the venomous red imported fire ant, both native to South America, as “invasive alien species.” Both species are small in stature, but hundreds of ...