And yet not much is known about their underground homes, which can go six feet deep and hold more than 160 feet worth of tunnels. And that’s pretty crucial information for an ant colony ...

Aided by apps like Waze and Google Maps, we generally take whatever ... yet jams rarely happened. Why? When an ant encounters a tunnel in which other ants are already working, it retreats to ...

Scientists look at how ants dig tunnels, and come up with some surprising results. Slip beneath the surface and the above-ground simplicity of an ant hill gives way to subterranean complexity.

The pieces are created by pouring some kind of molten metal, plaster, or cement into an ant mound, which flows through all the tunnels and eventually hardens. Then the surrounding soil is removed ...

By watching the ants burrow through glass tunnels, the researchers discovered that the optimal diameter of a fire-ant tunnel is roughly the same as a fire ant's body length. This tunnel diameter ...

Out of the great ant hill which is Manhattan, three sets of ant tunnels furrow under the Hudson River and emerge in the free air of New Jersey. One set of tunnels belongs to the Pennsylvania R.

“This is the time of year when ants begin foraging for food and when spring rains percolate through the soil and destroy underground fire ant tunnels,” said Robert Puckett, AgriLife Extension ...