A rare ant species endemic to Japan has been found to be the only kind that lacks both workers and males, consisting ...

Some butterfly species can’t grow unless they trick ants into taking them home with a complex rhythmic signal.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An ant species can amputate each other's legs and can also determine whether it is needed depending on the location of the wound, ...

Researchers have found that some butterfly caterpillars mimic the meticulously timed movements of ants to win their favor and ...

Entomologist Jessica Purcell calls the learned behavior “a new height of exploitation” Parasitic queen ants infiltrate rival ant colonies and trigger workers to kill their own queen The takeover ...

The study of fossilized resin stones containing several creatures allowed scientists to recreate the interactions between ...

A tiny invasive ant muscled into a Kenyan savannah and sparked such a dramatic transformation in the landscape that even the local lions changed the way they hunt, according to research published ...

Researchers from the University of Hong Kong and the University of Würzburg in Germany found that there are more ants than there are birds and mammals combined on Earth. In a recent study published in ...

Fire ants might be the scourge of southern states like Georgia and Texas, but scientifically, they are endlessly fascinating as an example of collective behavior. A few fire ants spaced well apart ...