For example, the Allegheny mound ant (Formica exsectoides), native to eastern North America, has a distinctive appearance with a red-orange head and thorax but a brownish-black abdomen.These ants ...

High in Fiji’s rainforest, the ant plant Squamellaria grows swollen tubers packed with sealed, single-door “apartments.” ...

Insects like ants heal their fellow species, and they even perform surgeries. Biologist Erik Frank is researching their ...

New research explores the surprising symbiotic relationship between tubers and different ant species at rainforest heights ...

A Massachusetts man said the sting of an Asian needle ant left him feeling sick. The invasive insect has been spreading ...

The fire ant has arrived in Málaga, Alicante and other Spanish locations. Multiple stings can cause vomiting, diarrhoea, ...

Queensland’s Red Imported Fire Ant Eradication Program, one of Australia’s most expensive and ambitious biosecurity ...

The ANA was discovered in the U.S. in 1934 while individuals were researching Argentine ants (Linepithema humile). Since the ...