Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Entomologist George McGavin went looking for one of the rainforest's most elusive rulers, and the footage of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ants are a common household problem in Australia usually found in the kitchen. But, one woman has had the shock of her life, ...

Imagine trying to build a house without a blueprint, find a shortcut through an unfamiliar city without a map, or govern a large organization with no leaders and no meetings. It sounds impossible. Yet ...

A trail of leaf-cutter ants marches along the ground, each transporting leaf fragments much larger than themselves. The leaves are not consumed directly. Rather, they are taken below ground to ...

Scientists say the ant colony queen doesn’t actually control the colony. Find out how swarm intelligence in ants explains how ant colonies work through cooperation and communication. F1lter 88/Pexels ...

To understand what happened after the ants encountered the insecticides, Choe and his students built transparent colonies in the laboratory. This allowed them to observe the ants both inside their ...

Source: Princeton University Press/with permission. Ants are fascinating and remarkably intelligent insects who live in complex social groups called colonies. 1,2 When I first learned about ant expert ...