Spot an ant colony, and you’ll likely hop, skip, or jump to avoid their bites. Deemed useless pests, ants are often ignored or squashed. Yet, a delightful surprise awaits: ants boast a lucrative ...

Sick young ants release a smell to tell worker ants to destroy them to protect the colony from infection, scientists said Tuesday, adding that queens do not seem to commit this act of self-sacrifice.

We’re throwing a big number at you to start off this episode: 100 quadrillion. That’s a 1 followed by 17 zeroes, and that’s a rough estimate of how many ants there are crawling across the planet! This ...