Don't assume an uptick in ant activity after setting out pesticide traps means the treatment failed. New UC Riverside research shows their behavior changes as chemicals make their way through a colony ...

(andersboman/E+/Getty Images) An ant nest can appear to be a jumble of tiny bodies moving independently. But every so often, ...

Ant colony synchronization has been explained for the first time by NYU and NJIT engineers, who found that a single ant can ...

Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a metaheuristic inspired by the foraging behaviour of social insects. In ACO, a population of artificial agents, or “ants”, construct solutions to combinatorial ...

New research shows that terminally ill baby ants tell other ants to kill them, potentially protecting the rest of the colony from their infection. In a study published today in the journal Nature ...

Some worker ants forage, some tend the nest, and some do something far stranger to defend their colony. A species lurking in ...

Termites can inflict nasty injuries on ants. Matabele ants, and some other species, rescue their injured comrades when on hunting raids. Nestmates lick the wounds of their injured comrades to prevent ...

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Everything in the ant hill seems to need the liquid secretions from members of the colony that are in their pupal stage. By Joshua Sokol Orli Snir, a biologist at the Rockefeller University in New ...