The “Antscan” web platform is the world’s largest digital database of 3D insect data. It is the result of an international ...

Few species of ants are more well-drilled than army ants; these disciplined drones live and die at the behest of their female ...

We’re not the only animals that farm; ants do it too, cultivating vast quantities of fungus to feed their growing ...

Some ants thrive by choosing numbers over strength. Instead of heavily protecting each worker, they invest fewer resources in individual armor and produce far more ants. Larger colonies then ...

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Ants can be found in nearly every location on Earth, with rough estimates suggesting there are over ten quadrillion individuals — that is one followed by 16 zeroes, or about 1 million ants per person.

Researchers discovered that males of the yellow crazy ant have maternal and paternal genomes in different cells of their body and are thus chimeras. The yellow crazy ant, or Anoplolepis gracilipes, ...

Take a Pest Control Quiz. Get matched with an Authorized Partner. Carpenter ants are a common sight in many homes, but their presence often raises questions and concerns. In this article, we provide ...

Ants are many things. They're hard workers and intensely social. They're quite strong for their size. And now they may also be a source of architectural inspiration too — for designing spaces that ...

A rare ant species endemic to Japan has been found to be the only kind that lacks both workers and males, consisting ...