Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most people glance at an ant trail and think nothing of it. A line of tiny insects moving across a kitchen counter seems like a ...

There is a strong temptation to explain organised-looking animal behaviour by assuming somebody is organising it. An ant trail invites exactly that. A line of insects moving purposefully between a ...

The painful sting of the red imported fire ant is not easily forgotten. Delivered in large numbers, the stings can kill small animals. Humans that develop hypersensitivity to the ants' venom are at ...

From Formic Acid and Pheromones to Peppermint Insect RepellentWhen walking along a path, you might sometimes see a line of ...

new video loaded: How Ants Get a Taste for the Trail transcript This is a carpenter ant sniffing. That’s how they follow the chemical trails that are laid by fellow ants — or research scientists. Of ...

It's a common sight—ants marching in an orderly line over and around obstacles from their nest to a food source, guided by scent trails left by scouts marking the find. But what happens when those ...

Ants marching across the yard might look like tiny road crews at work, but these little engineers are sending messages that go far beyond simple foraging. Their trails are more than lines of organized ...

A new algorithm explains how turtle ants know what to do when they lose the scent of other ants because of a broken trail. Imagine you’re a member of the Cephalotes goniodontus species, an ant with a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Research outlines how ant trails operate as chemical maps to colonies, clarifying nest-locating patterns and foraging behavior.