Ants

Have you ever noticed an ant in your home, only to find that a week later the whole colony has moved in? The traps you set up catch only a few of these ants, but soon, the rest of the colony…

Desert ants have outstanding navigational skills. They live in the saltpans of North Africa, an extremely inhospitable environment. To find food for their nest mates, foraging ants have to…

They're well known for their industrious work, but now a species of ant on Kangaroo Island is also showing that it is skilled at 'playing dead', a behaviour that University of South…

The yellow crazy ant, or Anoplolepis gracilipes, has the infamous distinction of being among the worst invasive species in the world. However, this is not the reason for which this…

It’s a small world after all… Publisher Microids, in association with Parisian indie studio Tower Five, has released the first screenshots for the intriguing-looking insect adventure…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Individual ants are relatively simple creatures and yet a…

SINGAPORE—The consumer-finance arm of China’s Ant Group Co. is planning to raise the equivalent of $1.5 billion in new capital, scaling back its fundraising ambitions…

A professional photographer has captured a close-up image of an ant’s face, revealing its horrifying features in super high resolution just in time for Halloween.In his 1944 play…

Ants, as a group, are creatures of habit. While an individual’s path isn’t certain, biologists who have spent a lot of time watching the behavior of entire colonies can predict the average…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Engineers sometimes turn to nature for inspiration. Cold…