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Ouch! You were digging in your yard to plant, and you just felt a sting delivered courtesy of a fire ant. You may think of fire ants as just one type of ant capable of such a sting, but the truth is ...

Ants make for small but unwelcome houseguests, trailing into kitchens and bathrooms in search of food and moisture during spring and summer. There are hundreds of species, and most are completely ...

During late spring and summer, ants start finding their ways into our homes in the search for food, and before we know it, we're dealing with a full-blown infestation. Deterring the little insects ...

If hummingbirds are flocking to the nectar in your feeder, then you can bet you’re attracting other visitors as well—ants. “Carbohydrates are ants' primary food source, and since nectar is high in ...

Using a combination of state-of-the-art evolutionary tools, the paper examines signatures of positive selection on a phylogeny of seven ants and compares these signatures with those detected in other ...

In an incredible display of team work going on in nature, these fire ants banded together to survive after their colony was flooded. When a fire ant colony floods, worker ants form a raft by linking ...