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

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

Mellissa Hairston has been living in the Atlanta area for 15 years. But it wasn't until Memorial Day 2024, while soaking up ...

Professor Jane Waters, a professor of biology at Providence College, and her students have been studying a colony of Asian needle ants on campus.

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Americans should be on alert for a stinging insect that's spreading across the United States this June. So far, at least 20 states have detected Asian needle ants. They've been fo ...

Ants have farmed fungi for 66 million years, according to new work in the journal Science. It's a relationship that flourished after the demise of the dinosaurs, says Ted Schultz of the Smithsonian.

The Asian needle ant is an "unusual pest," according to N.C. State. Unlike other pest ants such as the fire ant, the Asian needle ant is able to nest in both “natural areas” like forests and areas ...

As the ants do not swarm like fire ants, stings are usually isolated instances. Some people are allergic to Asian needle ants and could react similarly to someone with a bee allergy if stung.

A prehistoric hell ant that lived among dinosaurs 113 million years ago had an unusual way to kill its prey and sheds new light on insect evolution, researchers have found.

Appropriately dubbed “hell ants,” Haidomyrmecinae ants existed during the Cretaceous period (145 million to 66 million years ago) ... published Thursday in the journal Current Biology.