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A swarm of driver ants© Mehmet Karatay / CC BY-SA 3.0 As individuals, driver ants are small and relatively insignificant creatures. But as a colony, they transform into a huge and ruthless killing ...

The giant Amazonian ant, Dinoponera gigantea, is considered the largest living ant species, reaching lengths of 3 to 4 cm for the females. Native to the unflooded parts of the Amazon rainforest in ...

Ancient armies used ants as natural sutures to close wounds during battle. In India, Africa, and South America, soldiers and indigenous tribes employed large ants with strong mandibles to bite across ...

African Driver Ant (Dorylus helvolus) Termites (Termes bellicosus) Australian Ghost Moth (Trictena atripalp... Parasitoid Wasps (Kapala terminalis; Sti... Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) When it comes to ...

Imagine a legion of 50 million ants headed your way. The marching ants are so numerous you can hear footsteps and clicking noises as they grow closer. The swarm fans out for hundreds of meters, eating ...

Researchers are using army ants in Congo Basin rainforests to better understand the presence and emergence of zoonoses, diseases transmitted from animals to humans. According to the World Health ...

COIMBATORE, India — To better understand Equatorial Guinea’s tropical birds, ornithologists Luke L. Powell and Patricia Rodrigues scan the ground rather than the trees. They are searching for nests of ...

A toddler’s curiosity can be infectious. Walking to a park in their London neighborhood a few years ago, Eduard Florin Niga and his young daughter met an ant on the pavement. The girl stopped to ...

Ants are insects that form the family Formicidae. Like the wasps, bees and sawflies, they are part of the Hymenoptera order. They are found throughout the world, with the exception of Antarctica and ...