The engineering and defensive skills of red wood ants help the endangered species transcend its small stature in the natural world.

Carpenter ants vary in size from ¼ to 1/2 inch; they do not eat wood like termites, but they will excavate damp wood in your house to create galleries where they nest. Another type of ant you may ...

It turns out, all sorts of critters sneak inside fire ant nests. And while many of them are harmless, others are horrible house guests. For example, beetles burrow into the nest and devour the ...

Good watering tends to discourage ants, as they prefer dry conditions. Ant nests (hills) can be broken up with a fork and treated with boiling or cold water or ant powder. Ant nests can exist for many ...

Enthusiastically social insects, ants typically live in structured nest communities that may be ... of forming so-called supercolonies that house hundreds or even thousands of queens.

The social parasitism that I address here is restricted to the ants that form mixed species nests and depend on labor provided by the host species workers. These nests typically have two or more ...

Ants use odours to distinguish between members of their own nest and those from other nests. Each nest has its own specific scent. Previous studies have already shown that ants behave aggressively ...

They are less fussy about their habitat than their red counterparts, and Coed y Brenin provides an ideal habitat for them, and their nests are scattered across the forest floor. Red wood ants are ...

After being attacked by ants from a particular nest, ants behave more aggressively towards others from that same nest. A team led by evolutionary biologist Volker Nehring is investigating the ...