Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ant scurries along on six nimble legs. It catches up to its peers, a line of antennaed bugs roaming the winding surface of a ...

Some tree-dwelling ants that were thought to eat other insects and animals actually look like plant-eaters when biologists analyzed nitrogen in their bodies. The study revealed the ants mostly eat ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Predatory beetles can detect the unique alarm signal released by ants that are under attack by parasitic flies, and the beetles use those overheard conversations to guide their search ...

Secretive and destructive, termites live in close proximity to predatory ants yet still outsmart them. New research shows why -- termites have evolved the capability to sense vibrations of their ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. While humans may think of agriculture as a uniquely human achievement, ants have been farming their own food for millions ...

I thought I'd try something a bit different in this post. I wanted to write about the attine ants, a group of ants which have evolved a mutualistic relationship with certain fungi that can only be ...

Ants have farmed fungi for 66 million years, according to new work in the journal Science. It's a relationship that flourished after the demise of the dinosaurs, says Ted Schultz of the Smithsonian.

They might be close in terms of appearance but ants and termites are far from friends. These little critters share a hostility that can be traced back millions of years, one that often manifests in ...

In a behavior never seen before in an insect species, predatory ants were observed to retrieve wounded comrades on the battlefield and then bring them back to the nest for recovery. Sounds noble, but ...