Despite their tiny size, ants are able to accomplish absolutely incredible feats. They can build amazingly intricate nests, ...

Pictures showing the different types of ants ... Dr George McGavin explains to the young scientists how the ant colony is organised into different types of ants, known as castes.

This is my Western Harvester Ant colony. Despite starting from a tiny little tube, over the past 30 days, the colony has expanded to an entirely new level. Over the months Ive documented the ant ...

Everything in the ant hill seems to need the liquid secretions from members of the colony that are in their pupal stage. By Joshua Sokol Orli Snir, a biologist at the Rockefeller University in New ...

Ant guests will exploit the food resources in the ant colony, but at a great risk to themselves. Ants are known to kill intruders when they are detected to protect the colony. To avoid attacks ...

In other words, they follow a colony mind. Scientists observed this trait in action when studying how ants react to rising temperatures within their dirt burrows. As the nest grows hotter ...

That lone ant usually signals to an entire colony when there is both food and danger nearby. A study published June 14 in the journal Cell takes a closer look into how certain scent markers that ...

It may seem strange that an ant colony is hard to find, but ants in the genus Tyrannomyrmex don’t exactly advertise themselves. Not only do the insects live in small colonies of about 30 ...

The “Ants and Agriculture” exhibit in the Microbial Sciences Building closed Thursday with staff and students gathering to say their goodbyes to the ant colony. Forty people watched as the Currie Lab ...

For the first time, researchers have observed ants secreting a milk-like fluid that nourishes others in the colony. The research, published in Nature on 30 November 1, reveals that as pupae — an ...