Landowners in the Sunshine Coast hinterland have been left reeling after the deadly fire ant pest was found at a local ...

Authorities are investigating how fire ants came to be at a rural subdivision but say it is likely they arrived in mulch, plants, turf or soil.

An experiment that pitted ants against competitors from another nest has shown that these insects remembered the negative ...

Insects like ants heal their fellow species, and they even perform surgeries. Biologist Erik Frank is researching their ...

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

Evolutionary biologists are investigating the extent to which ants learn from past experiences. After being attacked by ants from a particular nest, ants behave more aggressively towards others from ...

Further analysis showed ants were more hostile towards ants that smelled of past bad encounters with other nests. When they ...

Ants learn from past encounters, showing more aggression toward familiar aggressive rivals and less toward passive ones. This ...

Ants learn from past encounters, recognizing aggressive rivals and adapting their behavior to respond more appropriately in ...