When it comes to teamwork, we could all learn something from ants. These relatively simple, small-brained animals are famous ...

Ants are silently destroying your lawn—here’s how to stop them. Ant mounds damage lawns by disrupting grass roots and creating bare patches. Slow-acting ant baits effectively eliminate colonies; ...

For ants, the ability to instantly distinguish nestmates from outsiders who might hijack the colony is crucial. Now, a new study shows that the system that ants use to determine who belongs in the ...

In today’s retail world, too much inventory is as risky as carrying too little. One U.S. grocery chain, operating a hub-and-spoke distribution model, held 57 days of supply for dry food. Inventory ...

Humans are not the only animals to have a dedicated health care system. Some super-organized ant species not only recognize that their comrade is injured but actually carry them back to the ant nest ...

Ant crickets are small insects that spend their entire lives inside ant colonies, one of the most hostile environments for outsiders. These crickets survive by moving carefully among the ants and ...

A rare Japanese ant is the only species known to lack female workers and males; all of its young develop into parasitic queens that try to take over other colonies. When you purchase through links on ...

An ant that can turn carbon dioxide in the air into dolomite stone in its exoskeleton may hold clues to how humans can sequester greenhouse gases to avert climate disaster. Fungus-farming ants forage ...

Life may look like a paradise for beetles living in ant colonies. Plump, wriggling ant larvae and helpless eggs sit waiting to be devoured, while hundreds of thousands of ants stand at the ready to ...

Ants coordinate highly complex foraging and traffic systems without any leaders, relying entirely on local interactions and chemical cues. Pheromone trails encode information about distance, food ...

Some ants thrive by choosing numbers over strength. Instead of heavily protecting each worker, they invest fewer resources in individual armor and produce far more ants. Larger colonies then ...