Tawny crazy ants are one of the tougher pest problems Houston is facing right now, a spokesperson said, according to ABC Home & Commercial Services. The company is urging homeowners to book ...

A man was arrested with more than 2,200 live garden ants in his luggage at Nairobi's main airport ​this week amid a rise in ...

Scientists have designed a new technique using robotics to rapidly generate high-resolution, three-dimensional images of ants. Antscan is the world’s first digitized library of nearly 800 ant species ...

Texas A&M AgriLife has science-backed ways to control fire ants and eliminate entire colonies — and not just the ones you see.

Red imported fire ants, Solenopsis invicta, exhibit remarkable survival during floods by forming living rafts. Thousands of ants link together, creating a waterproof, stable structure that protects ...

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

Winged ants aren’t random pests. Discover why over 1,000 US species take flight, form super colonies, and how to stop them for good.

Out in the British countryside, the examples of mutualism are as multifarious as they are marvellous. Take, for starters, a hypothetical good old meadow with ant hills strewn like grassy scatter ...

Some butterfly species can’t grow unless they trick ants into taking them home with a complex rhythmic signal. By Rebecca Dzombak Rebecca Dzombak has reported on parasitic ant queens and the number of ...

Every now and then, unwanted pests — big and small — make their way into our homes, becoming a frustrating nuisance. From flies to cockroaches, these intruders can be hard to ignore. Winter weather ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sceptobius beetles are seen grooming an ant as part of their evolved symbiotic relationship. D. Miller, Parker Lab/Caltech Life ...

Life may look like a paradise for beetles living in ant colonies. Plump, wriggling ant larvae and helpless eggs sit waiting to be devoured, while hundreds of thousands of ants stand at the ready to ...