Why do ants come in the house, exactly? We're sure you make a great host, but we'll bet these six-legged critters with antennae aren't on your guest list. Our homes have much of what ants need ...

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

hundreds of ants inside use the openings to seize it with their jaws. Another species, the yellow crazy ant (Anoplolepis gracilipes), is capable of forming so-called supercolonies that house ...

Now, all those baby ants need to live in a narrow temperature ... And while many of them are harmless, others are horrible house guests. For example, beetles burrow into the nest and devour ...

Hybrid fire ants, well established in East Tennessee and parts of Kentucky and North Carolina, are now infiltrating Southwest Virginia.

Ants — yes, ants — could protect apples, nuts, cocoa, and other beloved crops from disease and climate change.

A velvet ant bite like “hot oil from the deep fryer” delivers an array of peptides that inflicts pain on insects and mammals alike.

When scientists constructed a puzzle-solving task and pitted teams of people against teams of ants, the insects sometimes ...

I observed a trail of tiny ants in my kitchen. Like us, they seek warmth and shelter during this bitterly cold weather.

When scientists constructed a puzzle-solving task and pitted teams of people against teams of ants, the insects sometimes proved to be the smarter species. That’s not to denigrate human intelligence — ...