Quick Take Argentine ants are a non-native, invasive species in the United States. They compete with bumble bees for prized ...

HAIKU — Maui Invasive Species Committee’s little fire ant crew members are careful when using the “E word.” Considering the amount of time, energy, resources and funding it takes to battle little fire ...

Biologist E.O. Wilson once wrote that "ants are the most warlike of all animals," noting that clashes between ant colonies dwarfed the human battles at Waterloo and Gettysburg. But sometimes ant ...

For some would-be ant queens, the easiest way to take over a colony is to dupe its worker ants into committing regicide. The scientist E.O. Wilson once wrote that ants are the most warlike of all ...

Tiny pharaoh ants invade buildings and hospitals, moving along walls and pipes, defying all conventional control methods.

When bumble bees fight invasive Argentine ants for food, bees may win an individual skirmish but end up with less to feed the hive. Bumble bees are already under pressure from habitat loss, disease, ...

You can get rid of vineyard pests without the pesticides. Birds can be scared away by their own digitally recorded alarm and distress calls, blasted across vineyard space by loudspeakers. Ants can be ...

New research shows that terminally ill baby ants tell other ants to kill them, potentially protecting the rest of the colony from their infection. In a study published today in the journal Nature ...