In the spring, ants are once again hard at work. Beyond their everyday presence, ants are also key model organisms in cutting ...

After witnessing the interactions in an Arizona desert, a Smithsonian researcher suggests that the little ants picked off ...

In 2006, biologist Mark Moffett noticed an unusual behavior. The usually aggressive harvester ants would park themselves near ...

Mark Moffett, a research associate at the National Museum of Natural History, specializes in capturing the often-overlooked ...

In the deserts of southeastern Arizona, harvester ants congregate with serrated jaws agape outside the nests of much smaller cone ants. However, the nests’ inhabitants are not threatened. Instead, ...

Some people change careers, and it seems that the Harpegnathos saltator ant can do the same; worker ants can switch to queen-like figures that are known as gamergates. Worker ants are not able to ...

Banded Sugar Ant (Camponotus consobrinus) closeup isolated on white background, Banded sugar ants line up in a circle on isolated background, Group banded sugar ants line up in a circle© Kurit ...

Scientists discover desert ants forming a rare cleaning partnership, challenging what we know about insect behavior and ...

Researchers at Harvard have developed a fleet of robotic ants that mimic the self-organizing ...

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) has been found to play a significant role in controlling behavior critical to how ant colonies function, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at ...

You’ve probably never seen a Dracula ant, as these elusive insects spend their days tunneling through the leaf litter and ...