The ant scurries along on six nimble legs. It catches up to its peers, a line of antennaed bugs roaming the winding surface ...

Ants were farming more than 60 million years before ... Dr. Schultz explained that the insects harnessed the plentiful fungi ...

Ants learn from past encounters, showing more aggression toward familiar aggressive rivals and less toward passive ones. This ...

In an interview with The Guardian, Belgian entomologist Arnold van Huis says that farming insects emits ... societies still thrive on insects like honey-pot ants — which use their bodies as ...

Researchers have now used DNA analysis to uncover just how long ants have been farming fungi, now described in a study published Thursday in the journal Science. It turns out these insects have be ...

Ants are common insects, but they have some unique capabilities—including their legendary communication skills that allow their colonies to function as superorganisms. Invasive ant species are ...

Velvet ant venom acts on specific pain pathways in mammals and insects, revealing a unique biological defence mechanism ...

These sugar gifts function to attract beneficial insects such as ants and wasps to the plant ... As such, attracting natural enemies to the farm can be beneficial if it increases predation ...

At first glance, the Black Ant seems like your average Mexican restaurant. The restaurant's trendy decor reflects its location in New York City's East Village neighborhood. But a visit to the ...

Eating crickets, ants and worms has been common in parts ... of protein from cows requires thousands of litres of water. Farming insects also requires just a fraction of the land used to produce ...

The combined pressures of global heating and farming are driving a "substantial decline" of insects across the globe ... including bees, ants, butterflies, grasshoppers and dragonflies, at ...