With a staggering population of at least 20 quadrillion, ants are by far the most common insects on the planet today. They can be found almost everywhere and come in different shapes and sizes. While ...

Rock landscaping might make your garden look nice, but it can also attract hordes of ants. Luckily, there are ways to keep ...

I put the small brown ant I had mounted (but never identified) under a microscope and peered down at it. Two huge, headlight-like eyes stared back at me. That couldn’t be right; ants don’t have eyes ...

Mention carpenter ants, and Declan McCabe, chair of the biology department at St. Michael’s College in Colchester, thinks about the time he got a lungful of formic acid. He had taken a class into the ...

One kind of tiny ant can serve as a monumental example for how to keep members of a community safe from pathogens. A new ...

In my home state of Pennsylvania, I often have an ant problem in the warmer months. They seem to suddenly appear on the counter of my kitchen and sometimes on my bathroom floors. This makes sense ...

Summer is really hitting its stride, but with the sunny weather comes unwanted pests, and the most pervasive of these can be ants. Ants travel far and wide in search of food, and they famously spread ...

Ant farms were first invented as a way for researchers and scientists to study how ants behave and interact with each other, but it wasn’t long before they became popular educational toys. They’re ...