Ants are among the most dynamic of the “little things that run the world,” as the late biologist E. O. Wilson described ...

The Antscan database captures the tiny insects’ diversity and shows how the world’s living things could be rendered in three dimensions.

Scientists created the largest 3D archive of ant anatomy ever assembled, scanning nearly 2,200 specimens across almost 800 ...

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.

Ants marching across garden soil can feel like a tiny summer parade, except nobody sent invitations. Seeing them crawling ...

For more than a decade, Evan Economo's lab has been using micro-CT machines to scan insect specimens. The resulting X-ray images help researchers study the form and structure of insects—a subfield of ...

A few ants in a garden isn't a big deal, and they control aphids. But nobody wants an infestation. This simple, natural trick ...

The exploding ant, known scientifically as Colobopsis explodens, has one of the most extreme defense mechanisms in the animal ...

Ant crickets are small insects that spend their entire lives inside ant colonies, one of the most hostile environments for ...

Urgent action must be taken to ensure that imported red fire ants do not establish themselves on the island, to prevent ...

A provocative new international study published in Austral Ecology warns the massive "broadcast baiting" campaign currently ...

As if Argentine tegu, brown marmorated stink bug and emerald ash borers weren’t enough invasive species for South Carolina, now comes a resurgence of the Asian needle ant whose painful sting can cause ...