The rainforests of northern Australia are home to extraordinary ant colonies. Instead of dwelling in underground burrows, these ants inhabit canopies of trees, dozens of meters above the ground, ...

Ant societies rely on precise recognition systems to maintain cooperation, but new research reveals that these systems are ...

Ants have a remarkable defense against disease. Infected pupae change their scent, alerting worker ants. These ants then remove and disinfect the infected pupa, stopping the spread of illness. This ...

Biologist E.O. Wilson once wrote that "ants are the most warlike of all animals," noting that clashes between ant colonies dwarfed the human battles at Waterloo and Gettysburg. But sometimes ant ...

Ants are silently destroying your lawn—here’s how to stop them.

Its stings are not only painful, but potentially dangerous, sometimes causing allergic shocks. The Asian needle ant is spreading across the US and is now also being spotted in Europe. How do you spot ...

The craze for collecting ants takes Kenya by surprise as smugglers zone in to make a profit.

For some would-be ant queens, the easiest way to take over a colony is to dupe its worker ants into committing regicide. Why some ant colonies get tricked into killing their own queens Biologist E.O.