As individuals, driver ants are small and relatively insignificant creatures. But as a colony, they transform into a huge and ...

A Concordia biology professor is calling on ant experts to develop a set of common principles that influence the way the insects respond when their habitat undergoes severe disruption. Lessard writes ...

Habitat alteration can have far-reaching consequences for natural communities and can alter existing species interactions in profound ways. Working in a tropical dry forest ecosystem in the Guanacaste ...

I grew up in southern California, where ants and humans coexist peacefully, where encounters are infrequent and almost always happen outside. Unless you offered them an open invitation -- like leaving ...

Take a Pest Control Quiz. Get matched with an Authorized Partner. Carpenter ants are a common sight in many homes, but their presence often raises questions and concerns. In this article, we provide ...

I never had ant problems, until we moved to California. The ants that invaded our house were different from any ants I had ...

Even in its native Argentina, the fire ant wins in head-to-head competition with other ant species more than three-quarters of the time. Even in its native Argentina, the fire ant wins in head-to-head ...

Ant colonies are surprisingly complex and definitely worthy of scientific observation. This was the basic premise behind the original ant farms (antariums) introduced in the late 1950s. From ads in ...