Ants don’t tend to get in traffic jams. They might butt heads (or antennae) momentarily as they go about their industrious business, but ants somehow have mastered the art of keeping things moving.

Fairy tales hold the ant up as a loyal, industrious, communal creature. Maybe it's time to reexamine that myth, suggests Stanford entomologist Deborah Gordon in the Boston Review. It is easy to ...

For many ant species, caste determines destiny. Queens grow large, sprout wings, and lay eggs; workers stay small, wingless, and industrious. But how these castes develop—and how a young ant's future ...