Most of us associate ants with productivity. You probably imagine them digging tunnels, laying down pheromone trails, hauling food back to their nest, or, of course, maintaining their characteristic ...

Ants are supremely social animals. They have an extraordinary ability to organize themselves and an inherent drive to prioritize the needs of their colony over their own. Some ants have taken this to ...

Few components of an ant's complex waxy layer are enough to recognize members of its own colony The survival of an ant colony depends on its members being able to distinguish their own nestmates from ...

New research offers fresh insight into how different morphological types and social roles emerge in ant societies, confirming that size is coupled to caste, with genes ultimately deciding how size and ...

All of the nearly 16,000 species of modern ants share a common extinct ancestor, and a new analysis suggests modern ants once shared the planet with their ancient ant relatives — and that their ...

The survival of an ant colony depends on its members being able to distinguish their own nestmates from ants of a foreign -- and possibly hostile -- colony. This so-called nestmate recognition is ...