Ant hills spread quickly, but these three simple methods eliminate colonies before they take over your entire yard.

Just like human societies, ant societies have a division of labor. Within a colony, some individuals feed the young while others are soldiers who protect the colony from intruders. New research across ...

Ant hills spread quickly, but these three simple methods eliminate colonies before they take over your entire yard.

Temperatures are rising, and one colony of ants will soon have to make a collective decision. Each ant feels the rising heat beneath its feet but carries along as usual until, suddenly, the ants ...

Biologist E.O. Wilson once wrote that "ants are the most warlike of all animals," noting that clashes between ant colonies dwarfed the human battles at Waterloo and Gettysburg. But sometimes ant ...

A team of researchers led by James Waters of Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz. conducted a series of experiments designed to measure the components of ant metabolism, such as oxygen and carbon ...

For some would-be ant queens, the easiest way to take over a colony is to dupe its worker ants into committing regicide. Why some ant colonies get tricked into killing their own queens Biologist E.O.