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

Mao called yellow ants the ‘guards’ of his pomelo orchard. In order to have hundreds of ant nests, Mao worked with the Plant Protection Center Region IV to organize the breeding and using yellow ants ...

Regardless, it’s time to act fast. “Once a worker finds food, it takes it back to the nest to recruit the other ants,” says Eric Benson, PhD. “It will lay down a pheromone trail that the ...

You're most likely to encounter fire ants at their nests, which look like a pile of powdery soil. A fire ant nest doesn't have an obvious entry, which is a good way to distinguish them from other ...

The small industrious wood ant can do more than just build high nests in spruce forests. A newly published article in the journal Microbial Ecology reveals that ants combat a range of plant ...