Groups of social animals, including humans, can make complex decisions without a single central leader. Those choices aren't ...

A small group of fire ants can change a colony's social structure using genetic traits and chemical signals, says a new study.

There are a wide array of other ants besides carpenter ants, winter ants and fire ants – Massachusetts has plenty. Meet the ...

NARRATOR:'In a leafcutter colony there is a queen ant, and she is much bigger than the other ants. And her job is to lay eggs. NARRATOR:'Then there are lots of different types of worker ant.

After a mild past winter, the ant population here is growing. Here's what you can do before ants come marching in one by one ...

Parasitic queens, regardless of the type of social parasitism, must all somehow usurp a host colony and gain acceptance within the colony. In some ants, the queens use stealth or brute force to ...

Now, there's one more type of tunnel inside the nest, but only a few ants ever use it. You see, someone needs to find food for the rest of the colony. But running around outside the nest is ...

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 ...