Few things are more frustrating than unwanted insects making themselves right at home in your otherwise tranquil yard or garden. Pesky insects like ants can damage your plants, weaken trees, and even ...

A study by Dr. Gianpiero Fiorentino and his colleagues, published in the Journal of Paleontology, describes the identification of a new species of ant, Hypoponera electrocacica, belonging to the genus ...

A rare ant species endemic to Japan has been found to be the only kind that lacks both workers and males, consisting ...

Researchers have found that some butterfly caterpillars mimic the meticulously timed movements of ants to win their favor and ...

A frontal view of an Aphaenogaster mariae worker ant. This ant species had rarely been documented, but N.C. State student Michelle Kirchner collected a colony of the ants from trees in Wake County. A ...

Temnothorax kinomurai queens survive by invading the nests of a related ant species and co-opting its workers.