Maybe you’ve spotted a single ant wandering around on the kitchen floor, or perhaps there’s a trail of them marching across the counter. Regardless, it’s time to act fast. “Once a worker finds food, ...

Ants in your garden can be frustrating, but their activity can provide surprising benefits. Like beavers, ants are considered ecosystem engineers. As they build their nests, ants excavate soil from ...

Researchers have worked out an estimate for the number of ants crawling around Earth — and the total is "astounding." Scientists at the University of Hong Kong say there are 20,000,000,000,000,000 — ...

A team of international researchers is shining a light on the often understudied “little things that run the world” — ants. With the help of cutting-edge technology, the researchers created a first-of ...

Researchers from the University of Hong Kong and the University of Würzburg in Germany found that there are more ants than there are birds and mammals combined on Earth. In a recent study published in ...

A: The ants that invaded our house were different from any ants I had ever seen — they were so tiny that they could get into ...

Ants and human beings have much in common, including that both species have globally conquered the planet. We are both highly socialized creatures, agriculturists and ruthless in warfare. Both depend ...

The recent rain has been a welcome sight following a drought-stricken summer. However, with the rain comes trouble of its own. Of course, flooding was the major headline two weeks ago, but now we're ...

A few months ago, I awoke to find a streak spanning the length of my kitchen wall that looked like it had been drawn there ...