These ant 'portraits' reveal how diverse and beautiful these insects are. Photographer Eduard Florin Niga has produced a series of ant “headshots” that “open a door to a completely new world.” ...

By Kristine Sabillo Longhorn crazy ants, named for their jerky and erratic movements, may seem chaotic, but they are actually ...

It ranges in color from golden yellow to reddish-brown, ... The average lifespan for a worker ant is around 70 days. It takes worker pharaoh ants 36 days to become adults.

More information: Louis Bell-Roberts et al, Larger colony sizes favoured the evolution of more worker castes in ants, Nature Ecology & Evolution (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41559-024-02512-7.

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.

Most ants have two morphologically differentiated adult castes -- queens and workers -- each irreversibly specialized for either reproduction or nonreproductive altruism such as foraging, defense ...

Australia's native ants do an incredible amount of environmental and agricultural heavy lifting. Here are 10 of our mighty little workers.

Britain's Got Talent viewers were in for a surprise during tonight's fifth semi-final (May 24) as hosts Ant and Dec unveiled an unexpected twist to the show. Just minutes into the programme, the ...

Golden startup might have solutions to fight high gas prices, worker shortages 02:16. With supply chain issues impacting countless products and high gas prices, a Colorado startup hopes by ...

A worker ant, whether moving on a trail or searching for food independently, which encountered the crushed body of another worker, stopped sharply about 1 cm. from the body, ...

How does the golden buzzer work in BGT semi-final? ... Each week one of the judges or Ant and Dec will be in charge of it and can use it to send an act straight through the final later in 2025.

Honeypot ants are social ant species that develop large nests in the soil. Within these colonies, certain worker ants known as “repletes” serve as living food stores.