A UC San Diego study of the underground 'architecture' of harvester ant nests has found that the more connected the chambers an ant colony builds near the surface entrance, the faster the ants are ...

If you’re noticing an increase of ant infestations in your Kansas home this summer, two factors could be to blame. According ...

Q: Why would flying ants suddenly appear in a room of our home, and what do we do about them? We closed the door. We have never had a problem in the past, and all the windows are shut tight. R.S ...

Ants collectively build nests whose size can reach several thousand times that of individual ants and whose architecture is sometimes highly complex. However, their ability to coordinate several ...

Camponotus ants are juicy treats for the larvae of Ozaena beetles, which set up shop in their nests and suck unsuspecting ants dry.Photo Credit: April Nobile / AntWeb.org / CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Deuteragenia ossarium) in a paper released today in PLOS ONE. But the reason it fills a nest chamber with dead ants is even more surprising ...

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I have long been fascinated by the homes that animals construct. Over the years I have contemplated the nests of hundreds of different species—including ants, termites, wasps, birds, fish and ...