A rare ant species endemic to Japan has been found to be the only kind that lacks both workers and males, consisting ...

Temnothorax kinomurai, a parasitic ant species found in Japan, reproduces asexually and all of its young develop into queens ...

Some butterfly species can’t grow unless they trick ants into taking them home with a complex rhythmic signal.

Like a brain, an ant colony operates without central control. Each is a set of interacting individuals, either neurons or ants, using simple chemical interactions that in the aggregate generate their ...

Researchers hypothesize it descended from a slave-making species that lost its own workers because other ants worked for them, with the loss of male production occurring later in evolution ...

Biologist E.O. Wilson once wrote that "ants are the most warlike of all animals," noting that clashes between ant colonies dwarfed the human battles at Waterloo and Gettysburg. But sometimes ant ...

Ants are many things. They’re hard workers and intensely social. They’re quite strong for their size. And now they may also be a source of architectural inspiration too — for designing spaces that ...