Tunnelling with the fervour of an invading army, the millions of insects displace so much earth that pavements above them ...

UK gardeners have been put on high alert for a new destructive species of ant, the Tapinoma magnum, which has been sighted in ...

A curious summer encounter with rogue ants turns into a humorous journey through science, myth, and the mysterious habits of ...

Fire ants evolve into a fearsome hybrid: 'Anything can really happen' Researchers thought colder temperatures and higher elevations could stop the march of invasive fire ants. Mother Nature had ...

Dubbed one of the 'most destructive invasive species' they have been seen in UK and have habits making them easy to spot ...

Researchers thought they knew ants intimately. Then they looked at the pupae.

I opened the door of the kitchen cupboard to get the peanut butter and saw an ant scampering away. I quickly dispatched the ant. Now I have a problem. If I tell Mary Alice about seeing an ant, she ...

Flying Ant Day is upon us, with swarms of winged ants set to embark on their annual 'nuptial flight'. Here's how to stop them ...

The oldest fossil ant ever found is 113 million years old, so zombie fungi might have been infecting the ancestors of ants almost since their origin.

A teenage boy has suffered serious injuries after being bitten by a suspected Great White shark at a beach in New South Wales ...

Odd plants from a remote Pacific island reveal new insights into an important ecological question: how unrelated and ...