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

Big or small, most creatures end up on something else's dinner menu. But the velvet ant combines a ton of defenses into one ...

Young, infected Lasius neglectus ants will send out an altruistic "kill me" signal to worker ants, a new study finds, as part ...

Australia is baking through another extreme heat wave, with temperatures forecast to reach above 45°C for multiple days in a ...

Species with thinner protective barriers may need fewer resources and tend to have a greater ability to adapt to new habitats ...

Insects are everywhere, crawling across sidewalks, hanging out in our gardens, and even invading our homes. Despite ...

Neem oil is a gentle, effective way to keep bugs off your plants. It works against aphids, spider mites, and whiteflies, and ...

The research focused on Lasius neglectus, a species of garden ant. Unlike adult workers, which can leave the nest to die when they are gravely ill, young pupae are immobile and remain sealed in ...

A fossilized ant and fly preserved in 99-million-year-old amber have revealed one of the oldest known examples of parasitic ...

When infected by a fungal disease, ant pupae actively emit a chemical cue that prompts workers to get rid of them for the ...

Ant species that evolved thinner shells traded individual armor protection for increases in colony size, University of ...

(Think Christmas beetles (all 35 species of them), ever-noisy cicadas and the bogong moth on their migration .) The Bug Hunt ...