In the spring, ants are once again hard at work. Beyond their everyday presence, ants are also key model organisms in cutting ...

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Some people change careers, and it seems that the Harpegnathos saltator ant can do the same; worker ants can switch to queen-like figures that are known as gamergates. Worker ants are not able to ...

Banded Sugar Ant (Camponotus consobrinus) closeup isolated on white background, Banded sugar ants line up in a circle on isolated background, Group banded sugar ants line up in a circle© Kurit ...

Argentine ants are among the most destructive invasive insects on the planet, forming supercolonies that stretch across ...

To ants, survival of the fittest is a sham. A new study has found that instead of competing for resources, working together has evolutionary advantages. A team of scientists led by Daniel Kronauer, an ...

In 2006, biologist Mark Moffett noticed an unusual behavior. The usually aggressive harvester ants would park themselves near ...

It was a cloudy spring day in late March and the temperature was just above 40 degrees. After several days of damp weather and cooler temperatures, I decided to take a walk along the Ice Age Trail on ...

Scientists disrupted a gene essential for sensing pheromones, resulting in severe deficiencies in the ants' social behaviors and their ability to survive within a colony. Ants run a tight ship. They ...

Let’s say you’re out hunting with some friends, and all of the sudden you are all gruesomely attacked. One of your buddies loses a leg or an arm. As you’re running for dear life, would you pick up ...

Though many ants spend their lives peacefully tending fungus farms and herds of aphids, others have it much rougher. Such is the case with the ant species Megaponera analis, native to many parts of ...