Symbiotic relationships between species are both common and incredible, including those between ants and these four insects, ...

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

Whatever they are doing, bees take their jobs seriously, be it pollinating plants or nursing their young. They protect their ...

InsectNet -- which is backed by a dataset of 12 million insect images, including many collected by citizen-scientists -- provides identification and predictions for more than 2,500 insect species at ...

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

Tanaka and colleagues studied this behavior in Myrmecophilus tetramorii, a "brood parasite" that sustains itself within host colonies by consuming dead insects and ant larvae. The researchers ...

Tanaka and colleagues studied this behavior in Myrmecophilus tetramorii, a brood parasite that sustains itself within host colonies by consuming dead insects and ant larvae. The researchers ...