Scientists found that a fungus called Escovopsis living in ant nests has a long and surprising history. New research shows a ...

Kspeka joins host Robin Young to talk about ants, including the spiny queen, who invades colonies of carpenter ants using a ...

Ants are a nuisance to many homeowners, and most people don’t hesitate to reach out to their local exterminators to get rid of them. Many of us assume all ants are the same. However, when comparing ...

Researchers discovered that Mediterranean ants are having babies that belong to a different species. Researchers observed queens of the Mediterranean harvester ant species Messor ibericus, left, ...

Every clonal raider ant lives a nearly identical life. Each new generation of these blind, queenless ants is born at the same ...

Ants are among the most recognizable, admired, dreaded and mythologized insects on earth. They are famed for their industry, work ethic, organization, militaristic skills and loyalty. Ants are also ...

Nobody wants to discover a bunch of anthills in their outdoor space, but what could be the cause of these unsightly lumps? Dr. Allan Cabrero, entomologist and National Science Foundation postdoctoral ...

Ko Mochizuki of the University of Tokyo has discovered that Vincetoxicum nakaianum, a dogbane species native to Japan described for the first time by Mochizuki and his collaborators only a year ago, ...

Nicholas Green does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

So many of the world’s six-legged species are in trouble. Beetles are disappearing, butterfly populations are shrinking, and bumblebees are vanishing—all symptoms of a broader problem that has been ...

Frank Sinatra famously sang that if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere. And that's just what worries some scientists who have been studying a particular species of ant. This ant, ...

July 2, 2006 — -- Last week, Janet Wallace Roedl Shiansky, a 68-year-old South Carolina woman, went into anaphylactic shock and died after being attacked by ants while she was gardening. The ants ...