Without legs or much of a face, ant larvae don’t have many options for expression. They can sway, however, and when they do, they’re signaling to their nursemaids that they want food, according to the ...

How complex ant societies emerged among ants’ solitary ancestors remains one of the big mysteries of social insect biology. Ants are eusocial, meaning that they have overlapping generations, ...

Some tropical pepper plants also have mutualistic associations with still-other kinds of ants, housing the ants in hollow stems and feeding them on special “pearl bodies” full of nutrients. The ants ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Nov. 29 (UPI) --Florida carpenter ants share food through a mouth-to-mouth exchange called trophallaxis. New research shows fluid exchange during trophallaxis offers ants ...

New videos of ants fixing an entrée of fruit fly stew show that it’s the youngsters who do the colony’s version of cooking. What’s more, they don’t nibble as they cook but wait to be served their fair ...

An insect-eating pitcher plant teams up with ants to prevent mosquito larvae from stealing its nutrients, according to new research. An insect-eating pitcher plant teams up with ants to prevent ...

Everything in the ant hill seems to need the liquid secretions from members of the colony that are in their pupal stage. By Joshua Sokol Orli Snir, a biologist at the Rockefeller University in New ...

Master organizers, builders and farmers, ants have developed some pretty nifty ways to share resources and help the colony thrive. One example of this is a mouth-to-mouth encounter known as ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (http://www.ucr.edu) -- A University of California, Riverside graduate student has discovered several news species of wasps, including one that she ...

The meat-eating army ants of Trinidad and other tropical locales are such fierce predators that they're known as "the Huns and Tartars of the insect world." But apparently they're no match for the ...