Dr George McGavin explains how the ant colony is organised into different types of ants, known as castes. Each castes is a different shape and size and has a special job to do. The soldier ants ...

Ants are common insects, but they have some unique capabilities—including their legendary communication skills that allow their colonies to function as superorganisms. Invasive ant species are ...

NARRATOR:'Do you know what these tiny little creatures are? Yes, they're ants! NARRATOR:'There are lots of different types of ant, NARRATOR:'and they live all over the world. These ones are from ...

“The climate is changing too fast for many of these species” and some can’t keep up, Diamond said. The result could be the development of very different ant communities in the future, with shifts in ...

The scarlet velvet ant is very well known for its extremely painful sting. Less well known is that the velvet ant is not actually an ant at all—it is a type of wingless parasitic wasp. The ...