Ants are silently destroying your lawn—here’s how to stop them.

Ant societies rely on precise recognition systems to maintain cooperation, but new research reveals that these systems are ...

The ant recognition system is flexible, allowing ants to learn and tolerate outsiders while still recognizing their own kind.

Ants can be problematic in your yard or garden, but if you're not willing to harm them yourself, you can try this trick to ...

A group of scientists created a city of a million ants to study how they worked and found how each of them was able to work ...

A colony of leafcutter ants is home to more than just one species. Each year, studies reveal new layers of complexity in ...

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 ...

According to a new study out of Rockefeller University, the way that ant colonies make group decisions closely mimics the way neurons behave in the human brain. In other words, they follow a colony ...

In colonies of certain social insects, such as ants, individuals are specialized for particular jobs. For instance, different ants can be responsible for foraging, brood care, nest maintenance, waste ...