One kind of tiny ant can serve as a monumental example for how to keep members of a community safe from pathogens. A new study shows how they do it. Some ant architects design a colony to cut the risk ...

Ants are many things. They're hard workers and intensely social. They're quite strong for their size. And now they may also be a source of architectural inspiration too — for designing spaces that ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The trajectory of life on Earth has always been predicated by genetic evolution, but two scientists from the University of Maine argue that culture ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 78, No. 1 (Mar., 1995), pp. 144-154 (11 pages) The red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren, is considered an oil-loving feeder, however, carbohydrates are ...