Despite their tiny size, ants are able to accomplish absolutely incredible feats. They can build amazingly intricate nests, ...

"In the St. Louis area, ant season is March ... They don't feed on wood, but their nests can cause structural damage - or indicate it. Pharoah ants are a health nuisance - they like to burrow ...

If an infection takes hold in an ants’ nest, it could spell disaster for the whole colony. But some worker ants appear to have a workaround for that. When exposed to a pathogen, black garden ...

Take a typical colony of 10,000 or more true harvester ants (Veromessor andrei). They live in an underground nest of flattened chambers connected by skinny tunnels. In a new study of these ...

Researchers report that in the absence of visible landmarks, desert ants increase the likelihood that foraging nest mates will find their way home quickly and safely by elevating their nest entrance.

While an ant nest may not look much like a human home, they do have at least one feature in common: toilets. A team of researchers studying ant pooping patterns have discovered that ants like to ...

Enthusiastically social insects, ants typically live in structured nest communities that may be located underground, in ground-level mounds, or in trees. Carpenter ants, which include more than a ...

After observing several Leptothorax nests for some time, it became clear that it was the ants' sudden bursts of activity, performed simultaneously, that allowed them to avoid these jams.

Performing life-saving surgery is not something only humans can do. Some ants have been observed treating injured nest-mates — through either wound care or amputation, depending on the injury 1.