Bumble bees may overpower invasive Argentine ants in one-on-one fights, but those victories come at a hidden cost.

There are many ways to go about writing one’s first novel, and here I would like to share how I went about writing mine. When I started writing it, I had likely read over a thousand novels in both ...

Some butterfly species can’t grow unless they trick ants into taking them home with a complex rhythmic signal.

In this video, I raised a queen trap-jaw ant into an entire ant colony, observing the ants' reactions to simulate real-world events. The surprising ending sets the stage for another intriguing video. ...

Life may look like a paradise for beetles living in ant colonies. Plump, wriggling ant larvae and helpless eggs sit waiting to be devoured, while hundreds of thousands of ants stand at the ready to ...

A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has shown in a new study that ants returning from habitats affected by air pollution are attacked when they re-enter the colony. The ...

Common entry points include small cracks in stucco, gaps around pipes, leaks near outdoor faucets and openings near the base ...

Dominican amber preserves a 16-million-year-old ant queen, marking the first fossil evidence of Hypoponera in the Americas.

A new study from Caltech explores the remarkable way a SoCal beetle infiltrates the colonies of the ant that runs the show in the Angeles National Forest — and what it can tell us about interdependent ...

Rove beetles cloak themselves in ant pheromones to sneak into the insects’ nests for protection. But in an odd catch-22, that makes them forever reliant on their hosts Sceptobius beetles groom ants to ...

Ants are an extremely common issue in most homes. These haunt kitchens and washrooms or drop a single food item anywhere and see them make their way to get it. So what do we do? Well we call pest ...

Canadian entertainment giant Blue Ant Media has officially completed its acquisition of Vancouver-based Thunderbird Entertainment, sealing a deal that brings one of the country’s busiest animation ...