Out of the 210 species of ants in Texas, the fire ant is the one singled out as a serious nuisance to humans, according to ...

Countless species of insects have been around for hundreds of millions of years, including pests like cockroaches and beetles ...

It may be a politically incorrect to say it, but desperate times require words commensurate with the existential threat of ...

Two Belgian teenagers were charged Tuesday with wildlife piracy after they were found with thousands of ants packed in test ...

A tiny fossil preserved in 16 million-year-old amber revealed an extinct Caribbean species that mastered the art of ...

Photomicrograph of Basiceros enana, a newly discovered extinct dirt ant species preserved in Dominican amber, formed from ...

A rare 16-million-year-old ant preserved in amber is helping scientists uncover new secrets about one of nature's most elusive insects. The newly discovered species of "dirt ant" -- named for its ...