They crawl, they control, and they kill—without a sound. These real-life parasites turn their hosts into pawns in a ...

When an ant ingests the parasite’s larvae, most migrate to the ant’s abdomen. However, a single larva travels ... chemicals that cause the spider to build a completely modified web structure. Instead ...

Taxonomically, these animals have bodies divided into three segments: a head, thorax, and abdomen ... as bees and ants, live in advanced colonies and have incredibly complex means of communicating ...

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

The men, including two Belgian teenagers, pleaded guilty to smuggling thousands of live queen ants, which the Kenyan authorities said were destined for markets in Europe and Asia. By Ali Watkins ...

Kenyan authorities valued the ants at 1 million shillings ($7,700). The prices for ants can vary greatly according to the species and the market. Philip Muruthi, a vice president for conservation ...

Antom, a payment and digitisation provider under Ant International, has partnered with Adobe to enhance payment experiences for Asian customers. The collaboration aims to integrate localised ...

In two separate but related incidents, Kenyan authorities have arrested four suspects for illegally possessing and attempting to smuggle some 5,300 ants valued at about 1.2 million Kenyan ...

University of Western Australia myrmecologist Dr François Brassard found the ants, which had been parasitised, possessed and then consumed by a fungus, while on an expedition as part of the Bush ...

In a separate but related case, the Vietnamese national and a Kenyan identified as Dennis Ng'ang'a were charged with the illegal possession and trade of around 400 live queen ants, valued at ...

Samples of garden ants concealed in syringes are presented to court as two Belgian nationals, a Vietnamese and a Kenyan national appeared for the hearing of their case, after they pleaded guilty ...

The suspects, two Belgians, a Vietnamese national and a Kenyan, were arrested in separate operations and found with more than 5,000 ants packed into containers designed to keep the insects alive ...