An ant that disappears into the forest floor, a bird that demands attention from mates—for these animals, an inky black ...

The engineering and defensive skills of red wood ants help the endangered species transcend its small stature in the natural world.

Parasitic crickets survive in dangerous ant colonies using genius dodging and distancing moves while staying hidden in safe ...

A velvet ant bite like “hot oil from the deep fryer” delivers an array of peptides that inflicts pain on insects and mammals alike.

Are aphids overrunning your garden? Margie Siegal gives tips to rid yourself of these little insects—and the ants that farm ...

For example, they found that the cuticle reflectance of the female velvet ants closely resembles the spectra produced by other animal species with ultrablack coloration (Figure 3). Reflectance ...

Crickets are parasites—for some ant colonies. The species of ant crickets from the Myrmecophilus genus can infiltrate ant colonies, despite the potentially lethal defences that ants have ...

Researchers have identified the behavioral strategies that parasitic cricket species employ to infiltrate and inhabit host ant colonies. Their research demonstrates that these crickets use 'distancing ...

When scientists constructed a puzzle-solving task and pitted teams of people against teams of ants, the insects sometimes ...

A study conducted by UniTrento researchers examined ant trails to find out how they manage to avoid congestion thanks to ...

Feinerman said he doesn’t necessarily think the groups of struggling humans were stupid. Nor were the individual ants. All ...

The findings are detailed in a study recently published in the journal Communications Biology. Interloper animals that live in ant colonies are known as ant guests. These include some species of ...