For some would-be ant queens, the easiest way to take over a colony is to dupe its worker ants into committing regicide.

Scientists newly described how a parasitic ant queen infiltrates another ant species’ colony and tricks the workers into ...

Lasius orientalis and Lasius umbratus—invade and overtake a host ant colony. In both cases, the parasitic ant queen invades the nest and sprays the host colony queen with what is likely formic acid.

A colony of pavement ants was found amid the root balls of two small Lebanon trees recently intercepted at Detroit Metro ...

Earth's most successful creatures, ants, form vast, organized societies. The Argentine ant, however, has created an ...

Editor's Note: This article was provided by our partner, ScienceNordic. The original is here. The fungus-growing ants of the genus Sericomyrmex, which live in Central and South America, manage their ...

A traveler at Detroit Metropolitan Airport unknowingly brought some surprising hitchhiking pests with them to Romulus.

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 colony of a rare species of ant has been returned to its home in Devon six years after it was rescued by Paignton Zoo. The colony of narrow-headed wood ants was taken from Bovey Heathfield to ...

From ant infestations to bird nesting, spider outbreaks, and slugs, these are the most commonplace household pests and how to get rid of ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 78, No. 1 (Mar., 1995), pp. 144-154 (11 pages) The red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren, is considered an oil-loving feeder, however, carbohydrates are ...