Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ants' tiny brains can still coordinate to build complex structures using their own bodies. Apart from their nasty stings, army ant ...

Pesky wasp nests can cause significant damage to your home, so it’s important to take immediate action if you spot one in or on your house. There are a number of ways to deal with wasp nests, from ...

Here’s a fact that might ruin your day — fire ants can float. And not just one of them. The whole colony. KSAT viewer Jon Lindley shared a video with KSAT showing a huge swarm of the red devils ...

Fire and water do not normally mix. But when it comes to these imported fire ants, water is not a problem. In this extraordinary YouTube clip, we get to see. A colony of fire ants is dealing very ...

A new high-tech scanning system is rapidly turning thousands of ants into stunning 3D models—building a digital library of ...

Social insects, which don’t have very large nervous systems, are capable of remarkably sophisticated behavior, such as the direction-giving dance by bees or the lifesaving rafts formed by fire ants.

A desert ant species constructs mounds to use as navigational landmarks, which help them find their way home in their otherwise flat Saharan habitat. Desert ants are famous for their wayfinding skills ...

Some ants have figured out how to keep from getting lost: Build taller anthills. Desert ants that live in the hot, flat salt pans of Tunisia spend their days looking for food. Successful grocery runs ...

Army ants use their bodies to build bridges. Robots could soon take a cue from the tiny insect’s ability to collaborate. By Andrew Paul Published Nov 22, 2023 1:00 PM EST Get the Popular Science daily ...