Two formica thatching ants or field ants on a dried brown leaf - David Havel/Shutterstock Ants: They're creepy, they're crawly, and they're generally a nuisance. They can also be tough to get rid of, ...

Floridian Formica archboldi ants have eclectic interior decorating tastes, to say the least: Whereas most ant species are content to cozy up in sand- or soil-filled mounds, F. archboldi prefer to ...

It was a cloudy spring day in late March and the temperature was just above 40 degrees. After several days of damp weather and cooler temperatures, I decided to take a walk along the Ice Age Trail on ...

The engineering and defensive skills of red wood ants help the endangered species transcend its small stature in the natural world. Droves of ants spray formic acid produced by a venom gland at the ...

A: There are other species, but many of them have been displaced by the introduction of Argentine ants. There are a few that you still may find. I will briefly describe the most common ones and will ...

There is an open field not far from my house in town that Parks and Rec keeps mowed. About the size of a city block, it is home to a small picnic shelter, a basketball court, some playground equipment ...

Dear Carol: Our gardens have been invaded by ants that are mostly red with a black node at the end, and they are extremely aggressive. I had one crawl up into my clothing and bite me on my stomach -- ...

Over the last few years, several instances of ants damaging vegetable transplants have been reported on the Delmarva Peninsula in a manner unlike the more usual ant-plant interactions of feeding on ...

Researchers have discovered that the neck joint of a common American field ant can withstand astounding pressures. Similar joints might enable future robots to mimic the ant’s weight-lifting ability ...

Researchers at North Carolina State University found that ants did not adjust their behavior in response to warming temperatures and persisted in sub-optimal microhabitats even when optimal ones were ...