(andersboman/E+/Getty Images) An ant nest can appear to be a jumble of tiny bodies moving independently. But every so often, ...

Scientists have long known that ant colonies sometimes seem to move as one. A nest that appears quiet can suddenly erupt into ...

Ant colony synchronization has been explained for the first time by NYU and NJIT engineers, who found that a single ant can ...

Have flying ants appeared in your yard recently? You're not alone. Here's what attracts them and how to tell the difference between them and termites.

Just like human societies, ant societies have a division of labor. Within a colony, some individuals feed the young while others are soldiers who protect the colony from intruders. New research across ...

Ants may look like tiny individuals, but scientists increasingly describe the colony as a superorganism: the queen acts as ...

Ant colonies behave as 'superorganisms' rather than collections of individuals, a study from the University of Bristol has demonstrated. The study seeks to explain the behaviour of ant colonies as ...

Your home might unknowingly be a desirable spot for flying ants to feast and nest. Learn what's attracting the airborne critters and how to eliminate them.

A team of researchers led by James Waters of Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz. conducted a series of experiments designed to measure the components of ant metabolism, such as oxygen and carbon ...

The ant species Leptothorax acervorum is found throughout the Northern hemisphere. While many populations have multiple queens, a few have only one queen that reproduces. And in those societies, ...

Some honeypot ant workers never forage, never fight, and never move again after taking their post. Instead, they sacrifice ...

For some would-be ant queens, the easiest way to take over a colony is to dupe its worker ants into committing regicide. The scientist E.O. Wilson once wrote that ants are the most warlike of all ...