Ants are silently destroying your lawn—here’s how to stop them.

Humans are not the only animals to have a dedicated health care system. Some super-organized ant species not only recognize ...

For ants, the ability to instantly distinguish nestmates from outsiders who might hijack the colony is crucial. Now, a new ...

Army ants form some of the largest insect societies on the planet. They are quite famous in popular culture, most notably from a terrifying scene in Indiana Jones. But they are also ecologically ...

Enjoy your yard again.

A colony of rock ants, Temnothorax albipennis, inside the artificial colony, a cutout in a piece of gray cardboard sandwiched between two glass slides. The number written on the upper slide is the ...

If you live in a warm climate, you’ve likely had at least one unfortunate interaction with fire ants. These tiny red ants are ...

In sessile organisms such as plants and benthic invertebrates, founding propagules typically suffer extremely high rates of mortality due to both extrinsic and intrinsic factors. Many social insect ...