I never had ant problems, until we moved to California. The ants that invaded our house were different from any ants I had ...

Ants are most active from March to October, seeking food, water, and shelter, and may line up to enter your house, kitchen, and pantry. These pests like to enter your home through cracks, crevices, ...

Few ant species construct cleared trails. Among those that do, leaf-cutting Atta ants build the most prominent networks, with single colonies clearing debris and obstructions from hundreds of meters ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cinnamon confuses ant navigation by disrupting their scent trails. It doesn't kill ants but forces them to abandon areas they can ...

As individuals, driver ants are small and relatively insignificant creatures. But as a colony, they transform into a huge and ...

The nectaries offer sugars, amino acids, lipids, and other nutrients to the ants. Once a scouting ant finds that nectar, she lays a scent trail back to her nest and recruits other ants to come to the ...

This paper deals with the purposeful marking of trails as a mechanism for coordinating movement. Patterns of motion are adapted to the environmental conditions, the functions to be carried out, and ...

Researchers working on the Ribeirão Preto campus of the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have discovered that a bacterium found in the microbiota associated with leafcutter ant species Atta ...

Researchers say that they’ve discovered a new kind of traffic sign on ant highways—a chemical “Do not enter” that lets the insects avoid wasting time on paths that don’t lead to food. Ant science ...