Image of the Day: Dragon Ants Spikes on the backs of two new ant species discovered in Papua New Guinea led their discoverers to name the insects Pheidole drogon and P. viserion (pictured), inspired ...

Fire ants bite and sting with a venom called solenopsin. They can also survive floods by clumping together to float on the water’s surface. Other species, like the newly discovered Pheidole ...

The species of harvesting ants observed were, Pheidole megacephala, Atta structor, A. barbara, and a larger and differently coloured variety of the last. Atta structor is found over a large part ...