Each summer, there comes a moment when we suddenly notice that the ground is crawling with large winged ants. Then the air seems to be full of them and we find ourselves ducking and diving, trying not ...

Some ants have wings, which are longer in the front and shorter by their hind legs. The presence of wings indicates an ant’s fertility—ants with wings are either queens or the drones whose job ...

Interestingly, only female velvet ants exhibit this ultrablack coloration. The winged males are less dark, possibly because they rely on flight to avoid predators. One might expect that such dark ...

ants may bite off their wings. The ants even protect their aphid herds from rustlers—other insect predators.

KOTA KINABALU: A newly discovered species of ant from the genus Syscia has been discovered in Sabah. It has been named after senior lecturer Dr Yek Sze Huei (Zoe) from Universiti Malaysia Sabah's ...