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

Ants despise vinegar and it helps remove their pheromone trails. Dilute white vinegar with water in a 1:1 ratio and spray ...

The researchers from Nara Women’s University and other institutions said a whiff of a pheromone found naturally on the body surface of the Japanese carpenter ant, a native species, causes the ...

Researchers studied ants' movement to understand traffic efficiency. They found ants travel in organized platoons without ...

On the other hand, when solitary ants sensed the strong pheromones emitted by the leading platoon, they moved faster to catch up with the formation. Warriors and his team proposed applying ant ...

That ant might be a queen ... Meanwhile the troops are spraying formic acid, which burns the nostrils like a whiff of ammonia. They're also releasing alarm pheromones, from that upraised rear ...

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

Ants don’t actually have noses to smell with, but their antenna can detect chemicals called pheromones that are released by other ants. Some ants lay trails of pheromones to mark a path to ...