Like a brain, an ant colony operates without central control. Each is a set of interacting individuals, either neurons or ants, using simple chemical interactions that in the aggregate generate their ...

Fire ants excel at human assisted spread, which makes any construction or mining supply chain a risk if controls lapse.

HAMBURG — An ant grabs its injured companion and drags it through the savannah into the nest. Then it begins to lick its wounds. Again and again. When biologist Erik Frank observed this fascinating ...

A county official renewed warnings in the San Fernando Valley on Wednesday of the dangers of red imported fire ants after new colonies were discovered in Sylmar. The 22 mounds found this week in the ...

April 15 (UPI) --Not all ants serve a single queen. Researchers have discovered colonies of tropical fire ants, insects native to Florida and coastal Georgia, living under the rule of multiple queens.

A new population of “highly aggressive” red imported fire ants has infested a private property in Montecito, according to Santa Barbara County officials. The ants are capable of biting and stinging ...

“Today’s yogurts are typically made with just two bacterial strains,” microbiologist Leonie Jahn, one of the paper’s authors, ...

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Vol. 68, No. 11 (November 2014), pp. 1859-1870 (12 pages) Ant supercolonies (large networks of interconnected nests) represent the most extreme form of multi-queen ...

In the U.S., all commercial brands of yogurt taste really similar because they're made pretty much the same way, using only two industrial bacterial starters. But this wasn't always the case, says ...

It’s easy to lump ants into one category (you know, annoying pests you want out of your house ASAP), but there are actually more than 12,000 species around the world and each type of ant has its own ...