Ants are among nature's greatest success stories, with an estimated 22,000 species worldwide. Tropical Australia in ...

Ants are common insects, but they have some unique capabilities—including their legendary communication skills that allow their colonies to function as superorganisms. Invasive ant species are ...

During flying ant day, male and female winged ants, known as "alates," leave their nests and take to the air in order to mate ...

The email from Trip Lamb, biology professor at Eastern Carolina University, said, “As a velvet ant sting survivor, you may ...

Ant colonies, like most social insects, are composed of all females. Pratt said worker ants are female and the male ants breed with the queen. Pratt said when the ants were making a decision it was ...

Only male velvet ants have wings and, of course, male wasps and bees don’t sting. Whit Gibbons is professor of zoology and senior biologist at the University of Georgia’s Savannah River ...