Weizmann Institute researchers say that when together, the insects outperform people in maneuvering a load through a maze The ...

Researchers created two sets of mazes that only differed in size to match the dimensions of ants and humans, as well as ...

Narrator: At first glance, a fire ant hill — or mound, as it's properly called — looks impossibly small. And yet, a colony of up to 250,000 ants call it home. But here's the secret ...

A Weizmann Institute experiment found that cooperation proved more effective for ants than for humans. Anyone who has dealt with ants in the kitchen knows that they are highly social creatures; it’s ...

Each Argentine ant colony has multiple queens, allowing the colony to expand rapidly both in population and territorial control. Today, native Californian ant species like harvester ants and ...

breviceps are red ants that enslave other formicine ants which are black ... per colony to maintain a high proportion of slaves (Savolainen & Deslippe 1996). The main defense of ant societies ...

Ant colonies are so tightly knit and efficient, they can pass useful knowledge between generations, which some experts believe constitutes a colony “memory.” This kind of communal knowledge is ...

There is also anecdotal evidence that flying ant days often occur after some summer rain. Prior to swarming, ants are going about their everyday business and living in a colony in a nest. Black garden ...