An 8-year-old’s casual backyard observation has transformed our understanding of an intricate relationship between ants, wasps, and oak trees. What appeared to be ants carrying seeds turned out to be ...

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

Ants, whose closest relatives are bees and wasps, are native to nearly everywhere on Earth, as any picnicker knows, except Antarctica, Greenland, Iceland and some island nations. “I was amazed ...

Ants are common insects, but they have some unique capabilities—including their legendary communication skills that allow their colonies to function as superorganisms. Invasive ant species are ...

it is said that humans and ants are the only species in nature that can carry objects much larger than their bodies. Taking advantage of this common characteristic, scientists conducted an ...

There are over one hundred trillion ants on earth, approximately 14,000 ants for every human. If you weighed every human and all the ants, the scales would balance. The resin of conifer trees ...