Ants are pretty spectacular critters. They may be rather small, but that doesn't mean that they are boring. Here, we've complied some of the most interesting facts about ants... 10. Ants are as ...

I grew up in southern California, where ants and humans coexist peacefully, where encounters are infrequent and almost always happen outside. Unless you offered them an open invitation -- like ...

Fire ants build their colonies in dome-shaped mounds of soil that can reach 3 feet across and up to 18 inches in height. A well-established colony may contain as many as 500,000 ants.

Every single one of those tiny little ants is just as important. They’re responsible for supporting the food chain, decomposition, and seed dispersal among other things. 2.

Blogs Opinion Nature’s calling: Interesting facts about ants It is estimated that the total mass of ants on earth is equivalent to the mass of humans, about one million ants for every human on ...

If you were mesmerized by all those tiny ant bodies scurrying over a bridge made out of their fellow insects, you may have missed some other fun facts about ants in the video.

“They have such a complex and interesting biology,” said Dawn Flynn, adjunct curator of entomology at the Schiele Museum, in an email. “Plus, the diversity of all the forms of ants is fascinating when ...

We all are aware of the ants as we see them commonly at our residences and elsewhere. Certain facts of this living being are very interesting. The head of an an ...