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

These little black insects are usually a sign that your home is being invaded by carpenter ants. The wood-destroying insects ...

Carpenter ants chew through wood to construct their nests. You might think that a tiny ant couldn’t possibly ruin your day, ...

This video shows a wood ant running on a force plate designed to measure the tiny forces generated by each limb. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

Woodland Trust Scotland said hairy wood ants boosted carbon absorption in woodland, but they risk being overwhelmed by gaultheria shallon. Volunteers surveyed nests over the winter at the trust's ...

If you weighed every human and all the ants, the scales would balance. The resin of conifer trees contains antibiotic chemicals and is harvested by the European wood ant to disinfect their nests.

Ingo Arndt (Germany) documents the efficient dismemberment of a blue ground beetle by red wood ants. “Full of ant” is how Ingo described himself after lying next to the ants’ nest for just a few ...