The engineering and defensive skills of red wood ants help the endangered species transcend its small stature in the natural world.

From ants moving indoors to ants appearing in your potted plants because they hitched a ride from the plant nursery, there ...

How to build a mini ant nest. videoHow to build a mini ant nest The young scientists create their own small ant colony using plastic cups and make a pooter to collect the ants. Life cycle of an ant.

We wanted to film hundreds of Australian weaver ants cooperating to build a nest from leaves. To secure the leaves these ants do something seen nowhere else in nature - they use their own grubs as ...

Occasionally, clueless humans or major floods disturb the nest. And when that happens, the fire ants have only one option: leave. Once a year, on average, the colony will move out and build an ...

Deadly fire ants have breached the Sunshine Coast biosecurity zone, with six nests found at a building site, prompting calls ...

The social parasitism that I address here is restricted to the ants that form mixed species nests and depend on labor provided by the host species workers. These nests typically have two or more ...

Velvet ants are solitary insects. Males have wings and search for the wingless females on the ground. Once they find each other and mate, the wasps go their separate ways. When the female is ready to ...

Deadly fire ants have breached the Sunshine Coast biosecurity zone, with six nests found at a building site, prompting calls for more federal funding to thwart the pests’ march across the state.