Wherever there's dirt there's bound to be ants, but one particular group is so adept at blending in with the ground that they hold the name "dirt ant" (Basiceros) all to themselves.

Zombies are real – not in the walking dead sense, but there are parasites that can hack the brains of living creatures and force them to do things against their will, with the goal of spreading the ...

Small piles of sawdust beneath your doors or hear light rustling in your walls are signs you may have a carpenter ant ...

This claim is based on the use of pulse radar devices by experts to create high-resolution images deep underground beneath the structures, in the same way that sonar radar is used to map the depths of ...

They scuttle through soil by the millions and have been successful since the time of the dinosaurs. Rove beetles, the most species-rich family in the animal kingdom, have long puzzled scientists with ...

As temperatures rise and spring blossoms, many homeowners are plagued by an age-old annoyance - ant invasions. While chemical insecticides have traditionally been the first port of call ...

On a light-colored surface you mostly see the head and thorax, while on a dark surface you mostly notice the abdomen and legs. The tiny creatures were considered a nuisance ant in the mid-1990s.

The parasitic wasp's abdomen boasts a set of flappy paddles ... The wasp's flaps and teeth-like hairs resemble the structure of the carnivorous Venus flytrap plant, which snaps shut to digest ...

A newly identified parasitic wasp that buzzed and flew among dinosaurs 99 million years ago evolved a bizarre mechanism, according to new research.

Besides plants and flowers, a dinosaur tail, a crab, a hell ant, a spider mom and her ... had a Venus flytrap-like structure on its abdomen that could have allowed it to trap other insects ...

The previously unknown species, now named Sirenobethylus charybdis, had a Venus flytrap-like structure on its abdomen that could have allowed it to trap other insects, the researchers reported ...