Scientists have long known that ant colonies sometimes seem to move as one. A nest that appears quiet can suddenly erupt into activity, with workers throughout the colony springing into motion almost ...

Low-dose ant baits changed where Argentine ants gathered before causing substantial worker deaths. Thiamethoxam increased the number outside the nest, while boric acid reduced outside activity and ...

They can lift 5,000 times their body weight. They have armies in the thousands. And they outnumber us a million to one. But ...

A computational study of Aphaenogaster senilis ants shows that idle workers act as a dynamic reserve workforce that stabilizes colony energetics and explains sublinear metabolic scaling in eusocial ...

In a Swiss town, researchers documented the first known case of the parasitic ant Formica truncorum taking over a colony of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The Argentine ant is one of the most invasive species of ...

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 ...

In Southern California, rival ants warred at the borders of their massive supercolonies for ...

Ant colonies with a higher degree of genetic diversity thrive better than those that consist of individuals with more similar genetic backgrounds. This is the conclusion of an experimental study in ...