To keep themselves and their nests clean, ants have evolved some interesting housekeeping strategies. Some types of ants actually have toilets — or at least something we might call toilets. Their ...

Ants are all around us– whether they’re marching across your kitchen wall or quietly building a home in your garden. Most of the time, we barely notice them, until suddenly we do. But ants are ...

Each ant walked across the platform to find a drop of sugar water. Some sugar drops had no caffeine, while others had low, medium, or very high levels of caffeine. They watched 142 ants, and each ...

Here's what to know about eliminating ants this summer. Ants in NC N.C. ranked 14th for pest-related Google searches out of all 50 states. The five most common searches were bed bugs (3,600 per ...

A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science, finds a report published in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on April ...

Ants In House? Here's How They Get Everywhere, Even In Tall Buildings The highly social nature of ants is a big part of their success - and a key reason why they are so good at finding their way ...

Fire ants might come in different flavors, but they're all basically nasty and unwanted in North Carolina. Even so, the invasive ant native to South America is here to stay − and is adapting.

Ants may also come inside in search of water, particularly when the weather is hot. Some species prefer to build their nests in humid environments, which might explain why they are often found in ...

A secret weapon in agriculture’s climate fight: Ants Ants — yes, ants — could protect apples, nuts, cocoa, and other beloved crops from disease and climate change. Ida Cecilie Jensen ...

More information: Mélanie Bey et al, Associative learning of non-nestmate cues improves enemy recognition in ants, Current Biology (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.11.054 ...

Actinobacteria are just visible as a pale area on the chest plates. Credit: David R. Nash A new study finds that attine ants developed structural adaptations to host bacteria, specifically ...

Attine ants farm fungi, in one of the natural world's best-studied mutualistic symbioses. In the 1990s, the picture of this mutualism was expanded to include another partner: an actinobacteria, ...