This won’t be a festive column despite the season. I usually try to foster joy and goodwill with my words right about now, and the subject of ants which line their nests with the heads of their ...

Most of us associate ants with productivity. You probably imagine them digging tunnels, laying down pheromone trails, hauling food back to their nest, or, of course, maintaining their characteristic ...

New research describes the behavioral and chemical strategies of a Florida ant, Formica archboldi, that decorates its nest with the dismembered body parts of other ant species. "Add 'skull-collecting ...

Saharan silver ants (Cataglyphis bombycina) can reach jaw dropping speeds of 855 millimeters per second, making these teeny scavengers the Usain Bolts of the ant kingdom. The species lives in the ...

The nests of Florida ants called Formica archboldi are adorned with the carcasses of their enemies — namely, the heads of other species known as trap-jaw ants. How Formica archboldi acquire these ...

Leaf-cutting worker ants might look like they’d be helpless against an enemy soldier ant many times their size. But some of the smaller ants have a secret: Their entire body is coated with a thin but ...

: Sources of ant derived antibiotics on the ant body. The three body parts most often in contact with plant tissue - the mouth, the legs/tarsi and the gaster - all contain antibiotic-producing gland ...

This image highlights the whitish cuticular coating present on the ant Ac. echinatior. (Credit: T.R.S., in a study published by Nature Communications, via Courthouse News) This image highlights the ...

Scientists have recorded the speed of the world’s fastest ant, which lives in the Sahara and is able to travel 108 times its own body length per second. Harald Wolf, a professor at the University of ...