Anyone who has dealt with ants in the kitchen knows that ants are highly social creatures; it's rare to see one alone. Humans are social creatures too, even if some of us enjoy solitude. Ants and ...

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 ...

A new study found that ants perform better at solving puzzles in a group than humans, especially when the humans are not allowed to speak with one another. Longhorn crazy ants can't move in a straight ...

Scientists have long known invasive insects hitch rides on agricultural vehicles, a behavior that allows them to spread even further. Now, a new analysis suggests ants may do the same with everyday ...

National Harbor, Md. — Looking at face patterns in photos of more than 11,000 kinds of ants struck entomologist Clint Penick as a fine pandemic-lockdown project for his students. From that socially ...

Using a particle accelerator, researchers created high-resolution 3D scans of thousands of ant species, creating a database ...

Bumble bees battling invasive Argentine ants may win individual fights but ultimately lose valuable foraging time, putting pressure on colonies already strained by habitat loss, disease, and ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

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A unique “choreography” between two ant species suggests a distinctive partnership in which one provides a carwash service to the other. By Alexa Robles-Gil One June morning 20 years ago, Mark Moffett ...