Scent is essential to ant society: every ant within a colony wears the badge of membership in the form of smelly hydrocarbons ...

Some butterfly species can’t grow unless they trick ants into taking them home with a complex rhythmic signal.

Fungus-farming ants have evolved a remarkable solution to the danger of excess carbon dioxide inside their nests – which could inspire ways for humans to capture CO2 ...

Biologist E.O. Wilson once wrote that "ants are the most warlike of all animals," noting that clashes between ant colonies dwarfed the human battles at Waterloo and Gettysburg. But sometimes ant ...

Southern states familiar with an invasive, stinging ant are facing a new foe: A hybrid bug that combines the fierce red fire ant and the hardy black fire ant. Imported fire ants have spread from their ...

Call them nature’s own luxury high-rise condo rentals. Squamellaria plants, from the same family as coffee and quinine, are fat aerial tubers perched high in tropical trees. In Fiji, one of the ...

Although scientists have identified over 12,000 species of ants, you'll be relieved to know that only a few are likely to turn up in your house or garden. When you find these unwelcome invaders, ...

Knowing I am a night owl, they gathered on the kitchen windowsill and surprised me when I came in to get a snack about 2 a.m.