No creature embodies the idea that “it takes a village” quite like ants. Using chemical signals and other ephemeral communication methods like antennal codes, ants can work together to build or ...

The existence of ant colonies was a mystery even to the famous naturalist Charles Darwin. How could evolution produce workers ...

As army ants travel over uneven terrain, they link their bodies together to create bridges — a system that might give engineers insight into controlling robotic swarms.

Asian needle ants, an invasive species making news around the country, were found in Providence in 2015, but there's no sign ...

If you're not scared of ants, you might find this video quite interesting. In order to help the colony get where it needs to go, thousands of ants have turned themselves into a bridge.

Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers report that fossilized entomopathogenic fungi from mid-Cretaceous amber reveal some ...

'Once the ant turned its back on the colony and walked away, it was on a death march. And the parasite was in the driver's seat' Mindy Weisberger. Tue, April 15, 2025 at 9:00 AM UTC.

A typical colony is a fortress housing the queen, who produces workers to raise the young, and millions of other ants. It is ...

Everything in the ant hill seems to need the liquid secretions from members of the colony that are in their pupal stage. By Joshua Sokol Orli Snir, a biologist at the Rockefeller University in New ...

And the ants form them with an uncertain payoff. Until they explore their newly accessible destination, there's no way to tell whether there's enough food there to make the risk pay off.