Did you know that scientists have made an exciting discovery about an ant species native to southern Europe? They recently discovered that Iberian harvester ant queens are able to produce offspring of ...

Ant-mediated seed dispersal, or myrmecochory, represents a sophisticated mutualism between a wide range of flowering plants and ants. In this interaction, plants produce nutrient‐rich elaiosomes—a ...

The classic thought experiment about a horse-sized duck and a hundred duck-sized horses is more than a joke. It captures a ...

If you don't like the feeling of being stabbed by a needle, then you'll want to be sure to keep an eye out for Asian Needle Ants. Native to Asia, the insects are known as Brachyponera chinensis ...

Ants may be small, but they are quite rugged, especially in the face of extreme stressful situations like nuclear radiation.

New research shows that terminally ill baby ants tell other ants to kill them, potentially protecting the rest of the colony from their infection. In a study published today in the journal Nature ...

Ant colonies operate as tightly coordinated "superorganisms" with individual ants working together, much like the cells of a body, to ensure their collective health. Researchers at the Institute of ...

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s word on the latest natural history series out of North America. Blue Ant Media’s Canada-based companies Love Nature and Blue Ant Studios have teamed with the U.S.’s Big Media for ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, plexiglass barriers gleamed between tables, sidewalks turned into cafés, and circles on the ground reminded us to keep our distance — a kind of human-built “architectural ...

Scientists describe the behavior as "altruistic signalling," a form of social immunity in eusocial insects Getty A new research study finds infected ant pupae emit a chemical signal that prompts ...