Ants exposed to air pollution face aggression from their own nestmates, according to a new study that sheds more light on the ...

Attine ants grow fungus as food. Pseudonocardia and Streptomyces bacteria produce metabolites that protect the crop pathogens. However, these metabolites lack common structural features across ...

Temnothorax americanus is a slavemaking ant found in northeastern America. These tiny social insects neither rear their offspring nor search for food themselves. Instead, they raid nests of another ...

Researchers report that in the absence of visible landmarks, desert ants increase the likelihood that foraging nest mates will find their way home quickly and safely by elevating their nest entrance.

Illness usually brings trouble in the animal world. A weak member may be pushed aside, attacked, or left behind. Many animals go to great lengths to hide sickness. But for creatures bound by family, ...